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25 Pfennig Katholischer Kaufmanns-Verein
| Issuer | Katholischer Kaufmanns-Verein Herzlake |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein f. Herzlake (Hann.) Zu herzlake schlängelt die Hase umher und trägt beladene Schiffe von hier in Ems u. Meer. Gültig vom 1. Oktober 1921. Erlöschen wird bekannt gegeben. K.K.V. 25 Pfg. |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a bold Gothic-script denomination header '25 Pfennig 25' across the top, flanked by scalloped border ornaments. The central field is occupied by a large oval vignette with a finely engraved townscape of Herzlake, showing residential buildings, a prominent Gothic church steeple, and surrounding trees, with the place name 'Herzlake' inscribed within the vignette. Decorative scroll motifs in the lower corners complete the composition. |
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Herzlake is a small Catholic village in the Emsland region of Lower Saxony, and the Katholischer Kaufmanns-Verein — a Catholic merchants' association — was precisely the kind of local commercial body that stepped in during the 1921 small-change crisis, when coin shortages left everyday retail transactions nearly unworkable across Germany. Notgeld at this scale was as much a community trust instrument as a monetary one; it circulated only among people who knew the issuer personally and could reasonably expect redemption.
Emsland parish-based commercial notgeld of this type was rarely printed in large quantities, and institutional dissolution in the Weimar period meant redemption records were seldom kept.