30 Pfennig

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.