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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Appen (Municipality of Appen, Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Reverse description | Red and blue letterpress reverse with a broad red upper panel bearing the title 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Appen' in Gothic blackletter, below which a six-line patriotic verse in cursive German script is set against the red ground, flanked on either side by black panels carrying the denomination '25 Pfg.' in red numerals. The lower half presents a landscape vignette in blue and black tones, showing the massive trunk and spreading roots of an oak tree in the foreground with a heath and conifer landscape receding into the distance beneath stylised oak-leaf branches. |
| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Appen 25 Pfg. 25 Pfg. Von der Woge- die sich bäumet Längs dem Belt- am Ostseestrand, Bis zur Flut- die rutselos schäumet An der Düne flüchtigem Sand; Schleswig-Holstein stammverwandt, Stehe fest- mein Vaterland! |
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Appen is a small farming village west of Hamburg, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it issued Notgeld during the early 1920s when small-denomination coinage had effectively disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply never reminted in sufficient quantity after the war. The Gemeinde's recourse to a Hamburg printer was practical geography, not ambition.
The DeNG 2#39.2 reference suggests at least one variant exists within this issue. Worth checking whether the differentiation is a printing run distinction or a date suffix.