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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Halstenbek (Municipality of Halstenbek) |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde HALSTENBEK (COM. AMTSBEZIRK PINNEBERG) 25 Pfg. Dieser Schein verliert 2 Wochen nach Aufruf im Pinneberger Tagblatt v. Lockstedter Anzeiger seine Gültigkeit DER COM. AMTSVORSTEHER: DER FINANZAUSSCHUSS: KONRAD HANF, HAMBURG 8. |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a large pictorial vignette in black and green, captioned 'VERSANDZEIT' (dispatch season) at the top alongside the series designation 'N° 6', illustrating a rural nursery scene with workers loading horse-drawn carts laden with trees and shrubs along a tree-lined road — a direct allusion to Halstenbek's renowned horticultural trade. At the foot, a central text panel set against a green ground bears a four-line German verse on the value of forests, flanked on each side by green panels containing the numeral '25' in bold block type. |
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Halstenbek is a small settlement west of Hamburg, and this Notgeld piece is exactly what you'd expect from a minor municipality scrambling to cover the small-denomination coin shortage that paralyzed everyday commerce in Germany from roughly 1916 onward. Konrad Hanf was a Hamburg printing house that handled a considerable volume of this emergency municipal work — practical, local, unglamorous.
Nothing about this issue is technically unusual. Its interest is purely documentary: evidence that even the smallest Schleswig-Holstein communities had to solve the same problem through their own means when the central monetary system stopped delivering usable coin.