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60 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bokel bei Pinneberg, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a pastoral vignette of a man and woman strolling arm-in-arm along a country lane beside a gate, with whimsical birds playing musical instruments in the surrounding scene, rendered in a folk-art illustrative style. The denomination and issuing authority inscriptions are arranged around the central vignette in letterpress print. |
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| Reverse lettering | 60 PF. DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT AM 31. DEZEMBER 1921 SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT DER AMTSAUSSCHUSS: I.A. DER AMTSVORSTEHER: (Translation: 60 Pfennig. This note loses its validity on 31 December 1921. The District Committee: By order. The District Head.) |
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Bokel bei Pinneberg is a small village northwest of Hamburg, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1921 places this note well into the inflationary spiral that was already straining municipal finances across Weimar Germany. By that year, the Reichsmark's purchasing power had deteriorated sharply enough that even communities of a few hundred residents were commissioning local emergency currency to keep small transactions moving.
Konrad Hanf, the Hamburg printer, produced notgeld for numerous northern German municipalities during this period — a regional specialist rather than one of the major national printers. The DeNG reference suffix variants (1a through 4/6) suggest the series ran across multiple printings, modest for a settlement of Bokel's size.