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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Appeln, Frelsdorf, Frelsdorfermühlen, Meyerhof, Osterndorf, Wehldorf, and Wollingst, Municipalities of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central circular vignette shows a sower striding across a field, arm outstretched in the act of scattering seed, with a farmstead visible in the background. Above, a decorative arched banner in salmon-pink carries the Low German title inscription flanked by radiating decorative rays. Below the vignette, the note body carries the issuing communities' names, redemption terms, serial number at lower left, date, and a handwritten authorising signature above the title Gemeindevorsteher. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette shows an armoured knight on horseback, lance raised, overseeing serfs labouring in a field with a plough and wheelbarrow, evoking the feudal subjugation of medieval peasantry. The scene is rendered in a bold linear illustrative style typical of Notgeld emergency currency of the early 1920s, with the denomination and Low German verse inscription flanking the image. |
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Seven rural municipalities in the Zeven district of Lower Saxony pooled their issuing authority to produce this note — an arrangement that was legally permissible under the loosely supervised German Notgeld framework of the early 1920s but was administratively unusual even by the chaotic standards of that period. The joint attribution to Appeln, Frelsdorf, Frelsdorfermühlen, Meyerhof, Osterndorf, Wehldorf, and Wollingst reflects genuine inter-communal cooperation rather than any single administrative center taking the lead.
The 1921 date places this squarely in the second wave of German small-denomination emergency currency, issued as coin shortages persisted well after the armistice.