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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Nordenham (City of Nordenham) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeldschein der Stadt Nordenham 25 Pf Erler freier Frachmann. Dieser Schein verliert am 31. Dezember 1922 seine Gültigkeit. Der Bürgermeister: Karl Blanke, Nordenham. |
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| Reverse lettering | Lüch op un fleu herut 25 Pf |
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Nordenham's 25 Pfennig notgeld was produced locally by Karl Blanke, a printer operating within the town itself — an arrangement that was practical during the chronic small-change shortages of the early Weimar period but that also means print quality and paper stock varied considerably across runs. The reference suffix "1d" suggests this is one of several distinguishable varieties within the same basic issue, likely differentiated by paper color, serial numbering, or minor typographic shifts.
Nordenham, a port town on the Weser estuary, was an active industrial community by the early 1920s, with zinc smelting as its economic anchor — context that explains why the municipality had both the need and the administrative capacity to run a functioning notgeld program.