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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Esingen (Municipality of Esingen) |
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| Printer | Konrad Hanf, Hamburg, Germany |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette, rendered in a light blue-grey underprint, shows a woman in traditional Frisian costume standing before a low bush or shrubbery. The design is enclosed within a bold black border with chevron-patterned side panels in a geometric Art Deco style. Denomination numerals '25 PFENNIG' appear in plain cartouches at lower left and right. |
| Reverse lettering | FRIESISCHE TRACHTEN 25 25 PFENNIG PFENNIG NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE ESINGEN |
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Esingen is a small village in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities it issued Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that followed the First World War. The Konrad Hanf printing house in Hamburg produced a considerable volume of this municipal emergency scrip — a practical regional arrangement that kept production costs low for communities too small to negotiate with larger specialist printers.
Hanf's output for minor Schleswig-Holstein issuers tends to be typographically plain, and Esingen's issue is no exception.