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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schnelsen (Com.-Amtsbezirk Pinneberg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Schnelsen (Com.-Amtsbezirk Pinneberg) Dieser Schein verliert 2 Wochen nach Aufruf im Lokal-Anzeiger Stellingen-Langenfelde seine Gültigkeit Der Com.-Amtsvorsteher Der Finanzausschuss 25 Pf |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central oval vignette bordered by a rope-style guilloche frame, enclosing a lithographic view of a tree-lined village road in Schnelsen with buildings visible to the right under a cloudy sky. The denomination numeral '25' appears in each corner of the note. Below the vignette, a two-line quotation attributed to Schiller is printed in italic script. |
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Schnelsen was a rural parish northwest of Hamburg, administratively part of the Amt Pinneberg in the Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein. This note belongs to the vast wave of Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitutes — issued by German municipalities during the coin shortage that followed the First World War. By 1921, the national government had effectively abandoned its obligation to keep fractional coinage in circulation, leaving thousands of local authorities to print their own.
Pinneberg district alone produced dozens of distinct issuing authorities at this level. Schnelsen itself was absorbed into Hamburg in 1938 as part of the Greater Hamburg Act, which makes this note one of the last artifacts of its brief existence as an independent administrative unit.