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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bilsen (Municipality of Bilsen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow and black Notgeld note with an elaborate scrollwork border of interlocking pen-flourish ornaments framing the entire field. A central cartouche in yellow carries the issuing authority in bold letterpress, with the denomination numeral '25' in a decorative roundel flanked by the abbreviation 'Pf' on either side. The lower portion bears the validity inscription, designations of the Finanzausschuss and the Amtsvorsteher with two manuscript signatures below, and a typeset serial number in red at centre bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE BILSEN AMTSBEZIRK HEMDINGEN DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT AM 31. DEZEMBER 1921 DER FINANZAUSSCHUSS DER AMTSVORSTEHER KONRAD HANF HAMBURG 25 Pf |
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Bilsen is a small village in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of similarly modest German municipalities in 1921, it issued Notgeld to compensate for the acute shortage of small-denomination Reichsmark coinage that persisted well into the postwar years. The Konrad Hanf firm in Hamburg was one of the more prolific regional printers of this material, supplying notes to dozens of northern German communities simultaneously — which means this piece shares its production lineage with a wide range of contemporary issues from across the region.
Bilsen's series is minor even by Notgeld standards. The DeNG reference 1/2#105.1 places it squarely in the documented but unremarkable tier of small-commune issues.