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25 Pfennig Ykernborg
| Issuer | Eckernförde, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | VOR·DUSEND·JAHR TRUTZWALL·VON·ECKELENFØR KEEK·ØWER·LAND·UN·MER DE·YKERNBORG GUTSCHEIN DER YKERNBORG GÜLTIG·BIS·31·12·1921. ECKERNFÖRDE·SEPT·1921 DER·VERWALTUNGSRAT. HARTUNG & CO HAMBURG |
| Reverse description | The reverse bears a historical bird's-eye cartographic vignette reproducing a circa 1580 map of Eckernförde (here named 'EKELENFORDA') and its surroundings, with sailing vessels on the inlet labelled 'TRACTUS OCEANI' and the settlement of 'Borbi' with a church on the opposite shore; the annotation 'Situs quondam arcis Yherenborch' marks the former castle site. Two shield-shaped cartouches at lower left and right each carry the denomination '25 Pf.' in red, flanking the date '1580', with the artist's monogram 'W.BAA[?]' at lower right and the printer's imprint 'HARTUNG & CO·HAMBURG' at foot. |
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Eckernförde's 1921 notgeld issue came at the tail end of the first wave of German municipal emergency money, when hundreds of small towns and cities were still plugging coin shortages with locally printed scrip. Hartung & Co. in Hamburg handled a substantial volume of northern German notgeld during this period, supplying municipalities across Schleswig-Holstein with competent if unremarkable presswork.
The spelling "Ykernborg" is the Low German form of the town's name — its deliberate use on notgeld was common civic practice in the region, a nod to local dialect identity in a province that had only definitively returned to Germany from Danish administration following the 1920 Schleswig plebiscite.