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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Appen (Municipality of Appen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Appen 25 Pfg. Schleswig-Holstein meerumschlungen Deutsche Sitte - hohe Wacht - Wahre treu - was schwer errungen Bis ein schön'rer Morgen tagt! Schleswig-Holstein stammverwandt Wanke nicht - mein Vaterland! |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Appen is a small village in Schleswig-Holstein, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1921 places this note late in the main wave of German emergency currency — by that point, hundreds of municipalities were printing their own small-denomination paper simply because the Reichsbank could not supply enough coin to keep local commerce moving. Konrad Hanf was a Hamburg commercial printer who handled notgeld contracts for several northern German municipalities during this period, an unremarkable workhorse of the genre.
The watermark is the detail worth noting: relatively few municipal notgeld issues at this denomination bothered with any security feature, making the Appen 25 Pfennig a minor curiosity among its peers.