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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Thesdorf (Municipality of Thesdorf) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Horizontal Notgeld note with a blue and brown colour scheme, framed by a fine-line ruled border. The denomination numeral '25' is set within a central square vignette with a light blue guilloche underprint, flanked by the large Gothic-script lettering 'Thes-' and '-dorf' forming the issuer's name across the width of the note. The heading reads 'Notgeld der Gemeinde' in blackletter type above, with the serial number '1710' at top centre; the administrative district inscription 'COM. AMTSBEZ. PINNEBERG' appears on a dark horizontal band below the central vignette. Two manuscript signatures appear at the lower left and right, attributed to the Finance Committee and the Community Administrator respectively, with a validity clause in letterpress text at centre bottom, and the printer's imprint 'KONRAD HANF · HAMBURG' along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Horizontal Notgeld note in matching blue and brown tones, with a prominent central woodcut-style vignette of a farmer sowing seed in a ploughed field, a farmhouse with chimney smoke visible in the left background and a tree to the right, all rendered in a bold graphic idiom characteristic of early Weimar-era Notgeld artwork. The word 'Notgeld' is inscribed in brown Gothic script along the top edge, while the denomination '25 Pfg.' appears in large blackletter numerals within dark vertical panels on both the left and right margins. Decorative corner ornaments with floral motifs frame the composition, and the issuer legend appears in two lines at the foot of the note. |
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Thesdorf is a small community in Schleswig-Holstein, and like thousands of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency small change — Kleingeldscheine — to fill the coin shortage that persisted long after the war ended. The federal government's inability to maintain adequate fractional coinage in circulation drove even minor parish-level administrations to commission their own local notes, with Konrad Hanf of Hamburg handling a significant share of regional printing contracts for exactly these kinds of issues.
Hanf's output for small municipalities tends toward clean letterpress work on thin stock, and Thesdorf's series is no exception to that pattern.