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25 Pfennig Fürstenhof
| Issuer | Fürstenhof Hotel, Bad Oeynhausen |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein des Fürstenhofes Bad Oeynhausen i. W. 25 Pfg. Gültig nur in meinen vier Wänden. Wer es wagt, diesen Schein zur Einlösung vorzuzeigen, wer weint, bekommt sein Geld wieder. Hotelbesitzer. DRUCK: J. A. SCHWARZ · LINDENBERG i. ALLGÄU. |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a dark decorative border with the town name 'Bad Oeynhausen' in a ribbon banner across the top. The central vignette illustrates a humorous genre scene in a spa park setting, with several figures of varied nationalities and social classes — including a patient in a wheelchair, a man on crutches, and a top-hatted gentleman — gathered before a domed rotunda amid trees, rendered in a flat illustrative style in green, red, and black. The denomination '25 Pfg.' appears in red lozenges at left and right, and a four-line humorous verse in Gothic script fills the lower panel. |
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Bad Oeynhausen's Fürstenhof Hotel issued this 25 Pfennig note as Notgeld during the early 1920s, when the collapse of the Reichsmark's purchasing power made small-denomination coinage essentially disappear from circulation. Hotels, spas, and commercial establishments across Germany filled the gap by printing their own emergency fractional currency — legally tolerated, locally accepted, and frequently collected as novelties even at the time of issue.
J. Adolf Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu was a regional printer responsible for a significant volume of Bavarian and southwest German Notgeld output. The reference number suggests this survives in at least two known varieties.