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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Garstedt (Municipality of Garstedt in Holstein) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-cream ground with a blue decorative border frame. A central vignette depicts a stylised sailing vessel with billowing sails in blue, the numeral '25' printed in white on the mainsail, set upon stylised blue waves with curling wave motifs to either side. The heading 'NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE GARSTEDT' is letterpress-printed in bold black capitals across the top. Below the vignette, a validity clause and two manuscript facsimile signatures appear flanking the issuing authority text 'COM. AMTSBEZIRK PINNEBERG', with the printer's imprint 'KONRAD HANF HAMBURG 8.' at the very foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE GARSTEDT 25 GORCH FOCK FISCHIMARKSLEUWEN |
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Garstedt was a small rural community in Holstein that, like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — to address a nationwide shortage of small-denomination coinage. The economic disruption following the First World War had effectively drained metal currency from everyday circulation, forcing even minor localities to become their own issuers. Konrad Hanf in Hamburg handled a considerable volume of this municipal printing work across the northern German region, producing competent if unspectacular work for clients who needed functionality over artistry.
The series was likely retired once Reichsbank subsidiary coinage returned in quantity — most Garstedt Notgeld was never meaningfully circulated and survives in collector condition.