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30 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Altona |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Altona city gate rendered in a bold expressionist lithographic style, with three tall red-orange spires rising above a rounded archway bearing the municipal coat of arms; a serial number appears across the mid-section of the gate structure. The lower panel, printed in green, carries the place and date of issue along with the issuing authority designation and four facsimile signatures. A redemption notice in black letterpress runs across the upper portion of the note within a decorative black-speckled border. |
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| Reverse description | A harbour scene rendered in a vivid impressionistic multicolour lithograph, with a dark tower or dock structure at centre, a red-orange vessel or building edge to the left, and an atmospheric waterfront background in grey-blue tones. The denomination "30 PF." appears in red at the upper right corner, and the city name "ALTONA" is set in large bold red capital letters across the bottom of the note against a green ground. |
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Altona in 1921 was still a Prussian city independent of Hamburg — the two wouldn't be administratively merged until 1937 under Nazi reorganization. The municipal authority issued this note during the severe small-change shortage that followed Germany's postwar hyperinflationary spiral, when coins vanished from circulation almost entirely. Notgeld of this period was less emergency currency than a practical stopgap, printed by dozens of local printers across northern Germany on tight civic budgets.
H.W. Köbner & Co. handled a substantial volume of municipal notgeld commissions during this period, producing competent if unspectacular work.