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30 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bokelsess, Amtsbezirk Hörnerkirchen |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Bokelsess, Amtsbezirk Hörnerkirchen. |
| Reverse description | Black-ground design in yellow and orange with a central stylised floral vignette — a large tulip-like bloom with spiralling inner detail flanked symmetrically by curving stems bearing three-petalled flowers. An expiration notice appears in a yellow panel at lower left, and a serial number in red is set within a ruled yellow panel at lower right. Two facsimile signature lines appear along the lower margin with role designations, and the printer's imprint is typeset at the very foot of the note. |
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Bokelsess is a hamlet in Schleswig-Holstein so small it barely registers in regional histories, yet in 1921 its municipal authority issued this Notgeld alongside dozens of similarly obscure Amtsbezirk communities that suddenly found themselves responsible for plugging a coin shortage the Reichsbank had no immediate interest in solving. The postwar small-denomination crisis forced local bodies — parishes, cooperatives, market towns — to commission their own emergency paper, and printers like Konrad Hanf in Hamburg did steady business running off these short-run municipal series.
Hörnerkirchen Amtsbezirk covered a cluster of villages sharing administrative functions; the note would have circulated purely within that local economy, redeemable in theory but often simply spent into obsolescence.