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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Blumenthal in Hannover |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 100.5 × 71.4 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a flat-colour Expressionist vignette, signed 'Bette' in the lower left corner, of a kneeling female figure in red and green dress wringing or inspecting a large rolled textile bale, set against the plain cream ground with a faint repeated underprint. The bold denomination numeral '25' appears in large red script to the upper right, underscored by a sweeping red flourish. The printer's imprint 'J. F. Rohr, Blumenthal-Vegesack' is present in the lower right margin, and the serial number is printed in black on the green bale. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 J. F. Rohr, Blumenthal-Vegesack |
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Blumenthal was a small industrial commune on the Weser, absorbed into Bremen only in 1939. Like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitute — in response to the chronic coin shortages that plagued the early Weimar years before inflation made the problem moot entirely. Rohr was a local printer rather than a specialist banknote firm, which shows in the production values typical of provincial Notgeld: functional rather than fine.
The designer credit "Bette" is uncommon enough to suggest a local commercial artist rather than anyone with a broader documented output in the Notgeld catalogs.