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25 Pfennig Handelskammer
| Issuer | Handelskammer Harburg, Elbe |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Blue-ground notgeld with denomination numerals '25' in large bold black type at upper left and right. A central rectangular vignette in yellow and black renders a silhouetted harbour scene with a stevedore and ship's rigging against a golden sky. A pink panel beneath carries the payment obligation text and issuer inscription, with the date 'HARBURG, ELBE, d. 1.8.1921' and a handwritten-style signature followed by a serial number at the base. |
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| Reverse description | A full-face multicolour vignette in teal, ochre, and red renders a horse-drawn covered wagon with a teamster and four horses moving along a tree-lined road beneath a cloud-streaked sky. Below the scene, a cartouche in Gothic script carries a rhyming proverb. The composition fills the note to a thin black border rule. |
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Harburg-on-Elbe was an independent city until its absorption into Greater Hamburg in 1937, and its Handelskammer — the local chamber of commerce — was among the hundreds of German municipal and commercial bodies that stepped in to fill the small-change vacuum during the 1921 inflationary period. Reichsbank coin had effectively vanished from circulation through hoarding, and emergency paper issues like this one were the practical result.
The DeNG reference places this within a three-variant grouping (1/3), suggesting the Handelskammer issued the 25 Pfennig in at least minor typographic or color variants — a common feature of chamber-issued Kleingeldscheine where print runs were managed locally with limited press consistency.