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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Prisdorf (com. Amtsbezirk Pinneberg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Blue-tinted note with a light guilloche underprint incorporating stylized motifs of a postal horn, a crescent moon, a starburst, and conifers arranged around the central denomination numeral '25' flanked by oak-branch vignettes. A building vignette appears at upper right, with the serial number printed in pink at centre right. The issuer's name is set in Gothic blackletter at the top, with validity and signatory text in two lines across the lower portion, above two manuscript signatures and the printer's imprint along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Blue-tinted note with a central woodland vignette rendered in a detailed letterpress style, showing tall tree trunks with dense undergrowth and wildflowers in the foreground, and a leaping deer visible among the trees at right. The denomination '25 PFENNIG' appears in framed panels at upper left and upper right corners. The issuer's name is set in large Gothic blackletter across a plain panel at the lower portion of the note. |
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Prisdorf is a small rural commune in Schleswig-Holstein, and this 25 Pfennig Notgeld was issued during the inflationary spiral of 1921, when municipal authorities across Germany scrambled to fill the void left by a chronic shortage of low-denomination coins. The Reichsbank simply could not keep fractional coinage in circulation fast enough — it was being hoarded the moment it appeared.
Konrad Hanf of Hamburg handled a substantial volume of regional Notgeld work for Pinneberg district communes during this period, producing short runs economically on modest paper stock. Prisdorf's issue would have been one of countless such local commissions passing through his press in 1921 alone.