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30 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Westerhorn (Municipality of Westerhorn) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black and red on white paper, with a diagonal lattice guilloche underprint in red forming a decorative cross-hatch background across the entire field. The denomination numeral '30' appears in large Gothic blackletter type within ornamental cartouches at left and right, with 'Pfennig' inscribed below each. The central text in Fraktur script reads 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Westerhorn / Amtsbezirk Hörnerkirchen', followed by the validity clause 'Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit am 31. Dezember 1921.', with signature lines for 'Der Amtsausschuß' and 'Der Amtsvorsteher' at the base, and the printer's imprint 'Konrad Hanf, Hamburg 8' at the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black and red, with decorative vertical side panels composed of red and black diamond-shaped vignettes bearing stylized floral motifs flanking a central rectangular vignette. The central illustration, rendered in fine letterpress line engraving, presents a coastal seascape with rolling waves breaking onto a low shoreline with tufts of marram grass in the foreground and a clouded horizon beyond. The denomination '30 / PF' is printed in bold type within white panels set into the decorative side borders at left and right. A lower panel in red contains a Low German verse in Gothic script. |
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Westerhorn is a small village in Holstein, and like hundreds of similarly minor German municipalities, it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Konrad Hanf printing house in Hamburg serviced numerous small northern German communities during this period, producing short runs of locally denominated scrip that were technically valid only within the issuing municipality's boundaries.
Thirty Pfennig was among the more practical denominations for everyday transactions at the time — the coin equivalent had effectively vanished from circulation by 1917.