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25 Pfennig

Issuer Gemeinde Langelohe
Year 1922
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Shape Rectangular
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Reverse description Green and black Notgeld note with a central shield-shaped vignette enclosing a rooster rendered in a folk-art woodcut style. Four circular corner medallions each illustrate a rural agricultural motif: a spade with rising sun (upper left), a scythe with landscape (upper right), a sheaf of wheat (lower left), and a basket of produce (lower right). A floral dot border frames the entire composition.
Reverse lettering NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE
LANGELOHE
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Langelohe is a small village in Schleswig-Holstein, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1922 places this squarely in Germany's second wave of emergency municipal coinage — driven not by the wartime metal shortages of 1914–18 but by the hyperinflationary collapse that made official small change economically worthless before it could even reach circulation. Konrad Hanf was a Hamburg commercial printer, not a specialist currency house, and that distinction often shows in the plainness of smaller commune issues from this period.

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