25 Pfennig Nordische Messe

Kiel's 1921 Nordische Messe — the Nordic Trade Fair — was a deliberate post-war bid to rebuild commercial ties with Scandinavia at a moment when Germany's trade networks were in ruins and the mark was sliding fast. The city issued Notgeld specifically for the fair, a common municipal tactic by this point: local scrip kept spending within the event's economy and, increasingly, was collected as a souvenir rather than spent at all.

O. Vogler's design work for the Kiel series is regionally specific rather than generic — unusual for Notgeld of this period, where stock imagery was frequently recycled across issuers. Collector demand ensured most examples survived in unfolded condition.