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60 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bokelsess (Municipality of Bokelsess) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 60 Pfennigs (60 Pfennige) (0.60) |
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| Obverse description | Black and yellow Jugendstil-style Notgeld printed in two colours on a dark ground. The central vignette comprises two stylised floral roundels linked by sweeping Art Nouveau scrollwork: the left roundel bears the denomination numerals, while the right roundel encloses a whimsical bird figure rendered in bold graphic lines. A yellow border frames the entire note, and the issuing legend appears in decorative script within a yellow band along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 60 Pf. Notgeld der Gemeinde Bokelsess, Amtsbezirk Hörnerkirchen. |
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Bokelsess is a village in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of similarly small German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own notgeld to plug the chronic small-change shortage that followed the First World War. The Konrad Hanf firm in Hamburg handled a substantial volume of this municipal emergency currency work, printing for numerous north German communities simultaneously — which means the quality of execution is generally reliable even if the issuing authority itself was negligible.
The 60-Pfennig denomination is slightly unusual; most notgeld series leaned on 25, 50, and 75 Pfennig values. Its existence here may reflect a specific local pricing need rather than any broader monetary policy.