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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ellerbek (Com.-Amtsbezirk Pinneberg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 Pfg. Notgeld der Gemeinde Ellerbek (Com.-Amtsbezirk Pinneberg) Dieser Schein verliert 2 Wochen nach Aufruf im Pinneberger Tagblatt und Lockstedter Anzeiger seine Gültigkeit. DER COM.-AMTSVORSTEHER: DER FINANZAUSSCHUSS: |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 die Menschen sagen immer die Zeiten werden schlimmer, die Zeiten bleiben immer, die Menschen werden schlimmer. |
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Ellerbek was a small industrial commune on the western edge of Kiel, and like hundreds of similar municipalities across Weimar Germany, it issued its own Kleingeldersatz notes in 1921 to compensate for a chronic shortage of low-denomination coinage — the metal having long since been consumed by wartime demands and postwar economic dislocation. The designer credit "Schreiber" appearing on this note almost certainly refers to a local commercial artist or printer rather than a nationally recognized firm, a common arrangement for small-commune notgeld where production was contracted close to home.
The Pinneberg administrative district connection situates this firmly within Holstein's municipal notgeld output, a category that remains underappreciated relative to the more aggressively collected thematic series from larger cities.