Catalog
25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hainholz, Amtsbezirk Nordende |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issue printed in olive-green and black on cream paper, with a repeating geometric border of stylised triangular and diamond motifs framing the entire note. At centre, a bold star-shaped cartouche encloses the issuing authority text and expiry notice, flanked on each side by large diamond-shaped vignettes bearing the denomination numeral '25' in an ornate script. Two manuscript facsimile signatures appear below the text, attributed to the Finanzausschuss and the Amtsvorsteher respectively. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in olive-green and black on cream paper, the reverse is divided into three vertical panels. The two outer panels, rendered in solid olive-green, each carry the denomination '25 Pf' in large calligraphic white script. The central panel contains a line-drawn vignette of two women in traditional dress dancing beneath a flowering tree, executed in a lively folk-art style characteristic of German Notgeld illustration of the early 1920s. |
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Hainholz was a small community in the Amtsbezirk Nordende, near Pinneberg in Schleswig-Holstein. Like thousands of German municipalities scrambling to fill the void left by hoarded coins after 1914, it commissioned this Notgeld from Konrad Hanf in Hamburg — a local commercial printer rather than a specialist banknote house. Hanf produced municipal emergency issues for numerous small north German communities during the same period, which means the printing quality and paper stock here reflect a jobbing print run, not a dedicated currency contract.