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25 Pfennig Bevern
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bevern (Amtsbezirk Bevern) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 83 × 56 mm |
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| Obverse description | Blue and black Notgeld note with a central vignette set against a blue sky ground, showing a gnome or dwarf figure wearing a pointed hat and standing amid mushrooms and small flowers beneath a crescent moon with stars. The denomination '25 PFENNIG' appears in bold black numerals in two white panels flanking the central vignette, separated by geometric border strips at top. The lower portion carries the issuing authority text and validity date in letterpress, with manuscript signatures of the Amtsausschuss and Amtsvorsteher. |
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| Reverse description | Blue and olive-gold Notgeld note with geometric folk-art border panels in gold and black running the full height on both sides. The central vignette depicts two gnome figures kneeling at the edge of a pond, engaged with a frog on a lily pad, surrounded by irises, reeds, and aquatic plants beneath a crescent moon and stars. The denomination '25 PFENNIG' is printed in bold black in panels to the left and right of the vignette. The issuer legend appears at the bottom in large bold black letterpress. |
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Bevern is a small village in Lower Saxony, and its 1921 notgeld issue reflects the hyperinflationary pressure on German municipal administrations to self-supply small change when Reichsbank coin had effectively vanished from circulation. Konrad Hanf of Hamburg handled a significant volume of municipal emergency paper during this period, producing runs for dozens of minor Gemeinden across northern Germany — workmanlike output, not prestige printing.
The Amtsbezirk designation matters: Bevern was issuing under district administrative authority, not as an independent town, which occasionally complicates attribution in collections where the parent Amt is misidentified as the issuer.