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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schnelsen (Com.-Amtsbezirk Pinneberg) |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Grey-toned note with a central rectangular vignette enclosed in an octagonal border, presenting a silhouette scene of a farmer leading a calf by a rope against a light blue sky background. Flanking the central vignette are two oval wreaths in gold and blue, each enclosing the denomination numeral '25' with the Pfennig abbreviation. The heading 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Schnelsen' appears in Gothic script at top, with '(Com.-Amtsbezirk Pinneberg)' below. The lower portion carries a validity clause in cursive script, two manuscript signatures with their respective role designations, and a red serial number. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 Was frag ich viel nach Geld und Gut Wenn ich zufrieden bin? |
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Schnelsen was a village community in the administrative district of Pinneberg, northwest of Hamburg, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it resorted to printing its own Kleingeld during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany from 1916 onward. These hyperlocal Notgeld issues were typically authorized at the municipal level with minimal central oversight, which is why the quality, design ambition, and print runs varied so dramatically from one township to the next.
Pinneberg district saw numerous such issuers operating simultaneously, making attribution and series dating for individual community notes genuinely difficult without accompanying documentation.