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25 Pfennig Kreis-Handwerkerbund
| Issuer | Kreis-Handwerkerbund Stolzenau a/W (Spar- u. Creditbank G.m.b.H.) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Kreis-Handwerkerbund-Stolzenau a/W. Gutschein über 25 Pfennig Gegen Einlieferung dieses Gutscheines zahlt die Spar- u. Creditbank G.m.b.H. Stolzenau a/Weser 25 Pfennig Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit am 30. Juni 1922 Kreis-Handwerkerbund Stolzenau a/W. Spar u. Creditbank G.m.b.H. den 15. Nov. 1921 Lit. A |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 Pfennig Es ist kein Handwerk schlecht doch viele treibens nicht recht Handwerk hat goldenen Boden |
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Stolzenau an der Weser is a small market town in Lower Saxony, and the Kreis-Handwerkerbund — the district craftsmen's association — was precisely the kind of regional trades body that stepped in during the 1921 small-change famine to keep local commerce functional. The Reichsbank simply could not mint and distribute subsidiary coinage fast enough to meet demand in the inflationary spiral following the war, so chambers, guilds, municipalities, and savings cooperatives across Germany printed their own emergency fractional notes. This one was backed, nominally, by the Spar- und Creditbank G.m.b.H. attached to the association.
The watermark is unusual for notgeld of this denomination — most 25-Pfennig issues at this level skipped security features entirely.