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25 Pfennig Hannöverische Stiftungen
| Issuer | Kasse der Hannöverischen Stiftungen, Fränkisch-Crumbach |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein Fränkisch-Crumbach Ruine Rodenstein Kirche Fränk. Crumbach Dieser Gutschein wird von allen öffentlichen Kassen Fränkisch-Crumbachs eingelöst. Rodenstein Crumingen Die Kasse der Hannöverischen Stiftungen zahle gegen diesen Gutschein für 1920-22 · 25 Pfg. Fränkisch-Crumbach, Hess. Odenwald. Den 1. April 1921 Für den Stiftungsvorstand: 25 Pfennig |
| Reverse description | Printed in the same dark woodcut manner as the obverse, the reverse carries a large upper vignette of a white horse lying on its side amid swirling storm clouds, executed in vigorous expressionist linework with the artist's monogram 'Tips' at lower right. The denomination '25 Pfennig' is repeated in block numerals at each corner of the lower panel, with a stanza of verse text set within a central cartouche framed by decorative floral guilloche ornaments. |
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Fränkisch-Crumbach is a small village in the Odenwald, well outside any major commercial center, and the Hannöverische Stiftungen — a charitable foundation with Hanoverian roots — was an unlikely issuer of emergency currency. This is precisely the kind of hyper-local Notgeld that proliferated across Germany in 1921 when small institutions, municipalities, and even private organizations stepped in to address the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage that official channels could not supply.
Carlos Tips, based in Frankfurt, was a working commercial designer who contributed to dozens of Notgeld commissions during this period. The foundation's treasury — the Kasse — bore formal responsibility for redemption, which in practice meant little once hyperinflation made 25 Pfennig economically meaningless within months of issue.