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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kölln-Reisiek (Municipality of Kölln-Reisiek) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue and black on a pale yellow ground, the obverse is framed by geometric diamond-pattern side borders in black and blue. The central vignette presents a radiating sunburst with a crescent moon and scattered stars; denomination numerals '25' appear in blue at the upper left and upper right corners, with a red serial number at centre. Bold blue letterpress along the lower panel carries the issuer legend 'NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE KÖLLN-REISIEK', with the printer's imprint 'KONRAD HANF, HAMBURG' below. |
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| Reverse lettering | JANUAR FEBRUAR NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE KÖLLN-REISIEK |
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Kölln-Reisiek is a small village in Schleswig-Holstein — today best known as the home of Kölln-Flocken, Germany's oldest oat flake producer. In 1921, like hundreds of similarly minor German municipalities, it issued its own emergency paper currency under the Notgeld system, a direct consequence of the chronic small-coin shortage that had persisted since the war years and worsened sharply with postwar inflation.
Konrad Hanf in Hamburg was a commercial printer who handled Notgeld commissions for numerous small northern German issuers during this period — volume work, not prestige engraving.