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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Thesdorf (Municipality of Thesdorf) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Orange-bordered reverse printed in black, blue, and orange on cream paper, with decorative ornamental vignettes in each corner. The central vignette, rendered in a bold woodcut-style line technique, shows a low thatched farmhouse set amid a harvested grain field, with three figures visible behind a stook at right. The denomination '25 Pfg.' appears in large blackletter in both lateral panels, and below the central vignette the issuer's name 'Gemeinde Thesdorf (com. Amtsbez. Pinneberg)' is inscribed in a flowing gothic script. |
| Reverse lettering | Notgeld 25 Pfg. Gemeinde Thesdorf (com. Amtsbez. Pinneberg) |
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Thesdorf was a small village in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of German municipalities during the Kleingeldnot — the small-change shortage that gripped Germany between 1916 and the early 1920s — it issued its own Notgeld to fill the vacuum left by hoarded metal coinage. The Konrad Hanf firm in Hamburg was a workhorse printer for this trade, producing emergency notes for dozens of northern German communities, which means Hanf-printed Thesdorf pieces are competently made but not particularly rare in terms of production quality.
The issuer's extreme obscurity is the practical challenge here. Thesdorf generated little documentation, and redemption records are essentially nonexistent.