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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bullenkuhlen (Municipality of Bullenkuhlen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE BULLENKUHLEN 25 PF AMTSBEZIRK BEVERN DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT AM 31. DEZBR. 1921 SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT Der Amtsausschuß Der Amtsvorsteher |
| Reverse description | Printed in blue, black, and red within a double blue rectangular frame, the reverse bears a bold woodcut-style silhouette vignette of a stormy coastal landscape: wind-bent trees occupy the foreground, low-horizon architectural outlines — suggestive of a church tower or village buildings — are set at centre, and the turbulent sky is rendered through dense horizontal blue wave-lines pierced by a jagged bare tree trunk or lightning form rising through the composition. The denomination "25 PF" appears in large bold red angular numerals in both the left and right outer margins, outside the inner frame. |
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Bullenkuhlen is a village in Holstein that, by the 1920 census, held fewer than 200 residents — making it one of the smallest municipalities in Germany to issue its own notgeld. The 1921 dating places this squarely in the second wave of small-denomination paper notgeld, driven less by genuine coin shortage than by the collector market that had developed around these local issues by 1920–21. Municipalities quickly recognized that philatelic and notgeld collectors would buy and hoard these notes, generating revenue without ever having to redeem them.
The DeNG 2#206.2 suffix indicates at least two known varieties for this denomination from Bullenkuhlen.