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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Fürstenau (City of Fürstenau, Hannover) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 108 × 75 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT FÜRSTENAU 1402 Dieser Gutschein wird 4 Wochen nach Aufruf von der Stadtkasse zu Fürstenau eingelöst. Der Magistrat: Fürstenau 6.12.21 Das Bürgervorsteher Collegium: 25 Pf |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large semicircular vignette of the Fürstenau Rathaus (Town Hall) with a church tower visible to the right and a street of townhouses extending to the left, rendered in a linear illustrative style with a pale blue-grey underprint wash. The denomination '25 Pfg' appears in Gothic script at the upper left and upper right corners, each accompanied by the Low German legend 'dat wör'n früher 3 Stüwer'. A bold banner inscription at the lower centre reads 'NOTGELD der STADT FÜRSTENAU i.H.', above a decorative scrollwork border, with the caption 'Rathaus' and the Low German phrase 'all'use' inscribed within the vignette. |
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Fürstenau is a small market town in Lower Saxony, and its appearance as a Notgeld issuer in 1921 is entirely typical of the period — municipal authorities across Germany were printing emergency small-change notes by the thousand as metal coinage vanished from circulation. What lifts this particular issue is the printer: Gerhard Stalling in Oldenburg was a serious publishing and printing house with a long commercial history, not a jobbing printer scrambling to meet wartime demand. The quality of presswork tends to reflect that.