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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat des Flecken Bleckede |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue and white letterpress Notgeld note with an elaborate scrollwork and foliate guilloche underprint covering the central field. At centre, a diamond-shaped vignette bears the municipal seal of Bleckede with a rampant lion, encircled by the legend MAGISTRAT DES FLECKEN BLECKEDE; the large numeral '25' is printed in black above the denomination PFENNIG. Flanking the central vignette are symmetrical acanthus-leaf ornaments, while the lower panel carries redemption conditions, the issuing authority signature, and the printer's imprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DES FLECKEN BLECKEDE 25 PFENNIG MAGISTRAT DES FLECKEN BLECKEDE UNGÜLTIG WENN NICHT INNERHALB ZWEI MONATEN NACH ERFOLGTEM AUFRUF EINGELÖST. ZAHLSTELLE MAGISTRATSBÜRO DER MAGISTRAT GEBRÜDER JÄNECKE, DRUCK- U. VERLAGSHAUS, HANNOVER. |
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Bleckede is a small market town on the Elbe in Lower Saxony, and this 25 Pfennig note is Notgeld — emergency municipal scrip issued during Germany's acute small-change shortage of the early 1920s. The issuing authority, the Magistrat des Flecken Bleckede, used the term "Flecken," a specific legal designation for a settlement with market rights but below full-town status, a distinction that mattered administratively even at the height of the inflation crisis.
Gebrüder Jänecke in Hannover was a prolific printer of Notgeld for Lower Saxon municipalities, producing runs for dozens of small issuers simultaneously. Collector demand drove many towns to commission artistically elaborate series specifically for the philatelic trade, though whether Bleckede's issue was purely functional or partly speculative in intent is not recorded.