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25 Pfennig Handelskammer
| Issuer | Handelskammer Göttingen (Chamber of Commerce) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Two-colour letterpress Notgeld in black and ochre-gold. The upper half presents a central ornate cartouche bearing the large numeral '25' and the word 'Pfennig', flanked by two heraldic lion supporters in bold woodcut style; the inscriptions 'Handelskammer' at upper left and 'Göttingen' at upper right frame the composition. The lower panel contains a text box with the voucher clause in Gothic script, dated Göttingen, November 1920, with three manuscript signatures below and the printer's imprint at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Handels: Kammer Göttingen 25 Pfennig Dieser Gutschein über Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig verliert seine Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach erfolgter öffentl. Aufforderung Göttingen, 19 November 1920 Die Handelskammer DRUCK A. SCHWARZ, LINDENBERG i. A. |
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Göttingen's Chamber of Commerce issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that followed Germany's post-WWI economic dislocation — municipal and commercial bodies across the country were printing their own Kleingeldersatz because the Reichsbank simply couldn't keep fractional coinage in circulation fast enough. The printer, A. Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu, was a regional jobbing house in the Allgäu that fulfilled similar commissions for numerous issuing bodies throughout Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria during this period, which occasionally makes attributing undated proofs to specific issuers difficult.
Handelskammer notes generally saw short, intensive local circulation before being redeemed and destroyed once coin supplies stabilized in the early 1920s — survivors are typically heavily handled.