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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Esingen, Amtsbezirk Pinneberg (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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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on white paper. Issuer name in bold Gothic type across the top, with a red serial number in a ruled box at upper right. Central vignette shows an oak tree with intertwined trunks; flanking denomination cartouches each bear '25 Pf' in white on dark ground. Validity clause and two manuscript signatures appear at foot, with printer imprint below. |
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| Reverse lettering | FRIESISCHE TRACHTEN 25 25 PFENNIG PFENNIG NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE ESINGEN |
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Esingen is a village of a few hundred souls tucked into the Pinneberg district west of Hamburg, and in 1921 it had no business issuing its own currency — except that it had to. The postwar Kleingeldnot, the small-change famine that swept Germany as coins disappeared from circulation, forced municipalities down to the parish level to print their own emergency Notgeld just to keep local commerce moving. Konrad Hanf in Hamburg handled a significant volume of this municipal work for the surrounding region, which is why the printing address is Hamburg rather than anything local to Esingen itself.