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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Nordenham (City of Nordenham) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse of this Notgeld note is framed by a thin blue rectangular border and carries the denomination numeral '25' in large red script at upper left, followed by the issuing town name 'Nordenham' in bold black gothic lettering across the upper centre. The central vignette, rendered in a lively illustrative style, presents a large green frog seated beside a tropical palm on the left, while to the right a figure seen from behind wades through shallow water carrying a large red ensign-style flag, with a bucket at his side. A validity notice in gothic script occupies the centre field, and the Bürgermeister's facsimile signature appears at lower right, with the printer's imprint 'Karl Blanke, Nordenham' inscribed in script along the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 Nordenham Dieser Schein verliert am 31. Dezember 1922 seine Gültigkeit. Der Bürgermeister |
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Nordenham's 25 Pfennig Notgeld was a locally-printed emergency issue, produced by Karl Blanke — a printer operating within the town itself rather than one of the large specialist firms such as Giesecke & Devrient or Koenig & Bauer that handled the bulk of municipal Notgeld production during the inflationary years following the First World War. Local printing at this scale was uncommon and typically resulted in simpler typography and thinner paper stock compared to commercially contracted issues.
Nordenham, a small port town on the Weser estuary, had limited fiscal resources; its recourse to a neighborhood printer reflects exactly the kind of ad hoc municipal improvisation that defined German small-denomination Notgeld between 1917 and 1922.