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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Badeverwaltung Heiligendamm |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Colourful lithographed Notgeld vignette in the Art Nouveau style, centred on a full-length figure of a young woman in a red bathing costume standing on a sandy beach with breaking waves behind her, her long golden hair blown by the wind. The large red denomination numeral '25' and the legend 'PFENNIG' are superimposed over the figure, with a ribbon banner bearing the validity clause winding across the lower half. A text cartouche at the top carries a Low German verse, flanked by the inscription 'OSTSEEBAD HEILIGENDAMM', and the issuing authority 'DIE BADEVERWALTUNG' with a manuscript signature appears along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | De schönste Gegend helpt uns nicks, wenn wi nich mit uns Gewissen in'n Kloren lund. OSTSEEBAD HEILIGENDAMM 25 PFENNIG GÜLTIG FÜR DEN GELDVERKEHR INNERHALB DES ORTES BIS 28.2.1922 DIE BADEVERWALTUNG |
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Heiligendamm, on the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg, was Germany's oldest sea resort — founded in 1793 — and by the Weimar inflation years its Badeverwaltung (spa administration) was among the countless municipal and private bodies forced to print their own small-denomination scrip as federal coinage disappeared from circulation entirely. This Notgeld exists because hoarding and metal shortages made official pfennig coins functionally unavailable, not because any monetary authority sanctioned it.
The DeNG 2#590.1-2/3 reference suggests at least two distinct types within this issue — likely color or text variants, a common practice among Notgeld printers who produced collectible sets deliberately aimed at the booming philatelic trade of 1921–1922.