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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Hessisch Oldendorf (City of Hessisch Oldendorf) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a central rectangular vignette reproducing an excerpt from an old engraving of the town of Hessisch Oldendorf as it appeared during the Battle of Hess-Oldendorf (28 June – 8 July 1633), with the town name 'Oldendorf' inscribed within the scene. The denomination '25' appears in ornamental corner cartouches at upper left and right, with 'Pfg' repeated in similar cartouches at lower left and right, while the city coat of arms flanks the central vignette on both sides. The lower panel carries the issue text dated Hess.-Oldendorf, 1. Okt. 1921, bearing the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister, with a large serial number printed below and the printer's imprint 'Edler & Krische, Hannover' at the base. |
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| Obverse lettering | Hess.-Oldendorf Ausschnitt aus dem alten Stich der Schlacht bei Hess.-Oldendorf vom 28. Juni–8. Juli 1633 25 Pfg Der Tag der Entwertung wird öffentlich bekannt gegeben. Hess.-Oldendorf, 1. Okt. 1921. Der Bürgermeister: EDLER & KRISCHE, HANNOVER |
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Hessisch Oldendorf was a small market town on the Weser in Lower Saxony, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921 it was printing its own emergency money because the Reichsbank simply could not keep fractional coinage in circulation fast enough to meet demand. This particular Notgeld series has attracted collector attention mainly because the designer, Rudolf Hillebrecht, later became city architect of Hanover and a significant figure in postwar German urban planning — an unusual provenance for what was essentially a stopgap printing job.
Edler & Krische were a Hanover commercial printer with a substantial Notgeld output during this period, not a specialist security firm.