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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Esingen (Municipality of Esingen) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of two intertwined trees with exposed roots rendered in bold letterpress style. Denomination numeral '25' with a Pfennig script monogram appears in solid black cartouches at left and right. The issuer title 'NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE ESINGEN' is set in large bold gothic lettering across the top, with a ruled validity notice and the issuing authority 'COM. AMTSBEZIRK PINNEBERG' along the lower portion, flanked by two manuscript signatures above the printer's imprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE ESINGEN 25 25 DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT 2 WOCHEN NACH AUFRUF IM PINNEBERGER TAGEBLATT UND LOCKSTEDTER ANZEIGER SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT DER FINANZAUSSCHUSS DER COM. AMTSVORSTEHER COM. AMTSBEZIRK PINNEBERG KONRAD HANF HAMBURG S. |
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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.