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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeindekasse Kellenhusen (Ostseebad) |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in red and black on cream paper, with a decorative red wave-pattern border framing the entire note. At centre, a large red numeral '25' is flanked by a symmetrical Art Nouveau vignette of two reclining mermaids supporting a cartouche inscribed with the issuing authority's text; below the cartouche, a red trident symbol is centred within a stylised bracket device. The designer's name 'Walter Siegmann Oldenburg i.H.' and the printer's imprint appear in small text along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Is de Krankheet noch so old, heelt ward se dorch Water, Sünn un Holt Notgeld des Ostseebades Kellenhusen 25 |
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Kellenhusen is a small Baltic seaside resort on the Schleswig-Holstein coast, and this note is a product of the post-WWI Notgeld wave that swept German municipalities between 1919 and 1922. Resort towns like Kellenhusen issued these small-denomination emergency notes partly out of genuine small-change necessity and partly because the collector market for attractive Notgeld had become, by 1921, a revenue stream in its own right — towns printed more than they ever intended to circulate.
C. Fränckel Nchfg. C. Will in Oldenburg in Holstein was a regional printer that handled several local authority commissions in northern Germany during this period. Walter Siegmann's involvement as designer is noted in the DeNG reference, though his work across the series varies considerably in ambition.