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30 Pfennig
| Issuer | Tonndorf-Lohe, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 87 × 56 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Tonndorf-Lohe Nord und Süd Ost und West Tohus is best De Welt is wit 30. März 1921 Alter Grenzstein Wandsbeck König Antheit Giltig bis 1 Monat nach Aufruf! Der Gem-Vorsteher: |
| Reverse description | Green and black letterpress reverse built around a large octagonal border enclosing the denomination in bold Gothic script 'Dreißig Pfg.' The issuer name 'Tonndorf-Lohe' arcs in Gothic lettering above the octagon, while the Low German dialect motto 'Spor di wat, denn hest du wat' curves along the lower edge. A green geometric diamond underprint fills the background, with the numeral '30' repeated in large ghost figures at each corner. |
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Tonndorf-Lohe was a small independent municipality just east of Hamburg that issued its own notgeld during the hyperinflationary chaos of the early Weimar period. Like hundreds of German municipalities scrambling for small-denomination currency after coins disappeared from circulation, it printed these 30 Pfennig notes locally rather than wait on a central banking system that had effectively lost public confidence. The township was later absorbed into Hamburg in 1938 during the Greater Hamburg Act, so this note predates that administrative extinction by nearly two decades.