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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreissparkasse Hofgeismar |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#619.2-1/5 |
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| Obverse lettering | Kreis Hofgeismar Reinhardswald Die Kreissparkasse zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus meinem Guthaben an den Inhaber 25 Pfennig Konto F No |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 25 Aus dem Urwald bei Sababurg "Schon stand im Nebelkleide die Eiche wie ein getürmter Riese da." Umfang des Stammes 9 m |
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Hofgeismar is a small town in Hesse-Nassau, and its Kreissparkasse — a district savings bank, not a central monetary authority — issued this 25 Pfennig note as Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany after the First World War. Municipal and institutional issuers of this kind proliferated rapidly between 1917 and 1922, filling a vacuum left by the disappearance of metal coinage from everyday commerce.
Gebrüder Gotthelft in Cassel was a regional press that handled a substantial volume of Hessian Notgeld contracts. Their output for smaller district issuers tends toward functional rather than decorative printing — a contrast to the elaborate collector-oriented Notgeld produced elsewhere in the same period.