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| Issuer | Gemeindeausschuß Bockswiese-Hahnenklee (Municipality of Bockswiese-Hahnenklee, Prussian province of Hanover) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Printer | Klischee-Fabrik Harzer Graphia |
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| Obverse lettering | Bockswiese-Hahnenklee 50 ß Von der bösen Welt geschieden, lebt man hier im tiefsten Frieden. Dieser Schein wird bis 1. Okt. 1922 von der Gemeindekasse eingelöst. Der Gemeindeausschuß CURT HANITZSCH dez. KLISCHEE-FABRIK "HARZER GRAPHIA" |
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| Reverse lettering | Bockswiese 5 rauscht um mich, es wogt um mich der dunkel grü-ne Tann: Ich 50 Pfennige |
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Bockswiese-Hahnenklee was a small mining and spa settlement in the Upper Harz, and its 1922 notgeld issue reflects exactly that dual identity — the spa trade had largely displaced the old silver-mining economy by this point, and local notgeld was as much a souvenir commodity as an emergency currency. Many Harz municipalities printed these small-denomination pieces knowing full well that collectors, not shopkeepers, were the primary market.
Klischee-Fabrik Harzer Graphia was a regional press that handled a number of Harz-area notgeld commissions during the inflationary period. Curt Hanitzsch's involvement as designer is the more notable credit here — he produced artwork for multiple German notgeld series in the early 1920s.