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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Langeln, Amtsbezirk Hemdingen |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE LANGEIN AMTSBEZIRK HEMDINGEN DER AMTSAUSSCHUSS J.A. DER AMTSVORSTEHER DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT AM 31. DEZ. 1921 KONRAD HANF, HAMBURG 8 |
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| Reverse lettering | DES ELFCHENS REISE AUF DIE ERDE 25 25 EIN WEIHNACHTSSPIEL V. ERNA. MARG. BRIEGER |
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Langeln is a village in the Pinneberg district of Holstein — small enough that its Notgeld issue was almost certainly printed in a single run with no reorders. Konrad Hanf, a Hamburg-based printer active through the Notgeld period, handled numerous small-municipality commissions, and the designer credit to Erna Margarete Brieger is more unusual; named female designers appear only occasionally across the tens of thousands of Notgeld issues, and Brieger does not surface prominently elsewhere in the literature.
The Amtsbezirk Hemdingen grouping — a cluster of small Schleswig-Holstein parishes sharing administrative functions — issued through several of its constituent villages independently rather than collectively, which accounts for the hyper-local issuer attribution.