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40 Pfennig Raa-Besenbek
| Issuer | Gemeinde Raa-Besenbek |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and black letterpress Notgeld note with a bold geometric Art Nouveau frame. The issuing community name 'Raa-Besenbek' is rendered in large Gothic blackletter script across the centre, below the heading 'Notgeld der Gemeinde' and above the district designation 'Amtsbez. Kurzenmoor'. Denomination numerals '40' appear at upper left and upper right in white script, flanking the central vignette, while a decorative guilloche band runs horizontally across the lower third, above the validity notice, two manuscript signatures, and a red serial number. |
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| Reverse description | Green and black note centred on a large dark oval vignette enclosing a folk-art scene of a barefoot fisherman in a wide-brimmed hat, striding through shallow water with a net over his shoulder and a basket at his side, a sailboat and moon visible to his left. Flanking the oval, two green roundels each carry the denomination '40 Pfg.' in bold numerals. The issuer inscription curves along the upper border in italic script, while a decorative geometric border frames the entire composition, and a motto in cursive script runs along the lower margin. |
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Raa-Besenbek is a small parish municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of German communes in 1917–1921, it issued its own Notgeld when small-denomination coins vanished from circulation entirely — hoarded by the public or melted for war production. The printer, Konrad Hanf of Hamburg, produced municipal emergency notes across the region during this period, making his imprint one of the more recognizable on Holstein Kleingeldscheine.
The issuing authority here is the Gemeinde itself, not a savings bank or merchant association — an administrative distinction that occasionally affected whether redemption was honored after stabilization.