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| Issuer | Stadt Norden (City of Norden) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | S. F. Siebolts, Norden, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Norden Gutschein Nr. über 25 Pfennige. Druck v. S. F. Siebolts, Norden H. DORNER |
| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse printed entirely in black letterpress within a simple double-rule rectangular border. The text in Gothic Fraktur script states the redemption conditions, specifying that the voucher loses validity if not redeemed at the Stadtkämmerei in Norden within one month of a public notice by the Magistrat. The place and date 'Norden, den 20. Juli 1920' appear at lower left, with the facsimile signature of 'Dr. Walther' for Der Magistrat at lower right. |
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Norden is a small coastal town in East Frisia, and this 25 Pfennig Notgeld piece is exactly the kind of purely local emergency scrip that proliferated across Germany in 1920 as small municipalities ran short of Reichsbank-issued small change during the postwar economic dislocation. S. F. Siebolts was a local printer — not a specialist security firm — which is characteristic of lower-denomination Notgeld from this period, where anti-counterfeiting sophistication was considered unnecessary given the negligible face value.
H. Dorner's involvement as designer and the signature of Dr. Walther on behalf of the Magistrat confirm this was formally authorized municipal issue, not an informal trader token.