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60 Pfennig Raa-Besenbek
| Issuer | Gemeinde Raa-Besenbek |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black and two shades of green on white paper, the note is centred on an oval vignette set against a solid black field, showing a farmer guiding a horse-drawn plough beneath a large radiating sun. Flanking the vignette at left and right are circular green cartouches bearing '60 Pfg.' in Gothic script, while the issuer's name arcs across the upper register within a decorative ribbon band. Foliate and geometric ornaments articulate all four corners of the outer frame. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark green and black on white paper, the reverse repeats the oval agricultural ploughing vignette within a solid black field, flanked by matching circular green '60 Pfg.' value cartouches. A motto in Gothic script occupies the lower register, and the same geometric corner ornaments as those on the obverse complete the outer border. |
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Raa-Besenbek is a village in Schleswig-Holstein so small it barely registers in regional administrative records. That a Gemeinde of this size issued its own Notgeld in 1921 is less surprising than it sounds — by that point the German small-change crisis had pushed hundreds of municipalities, parishes, and even individual businesses into producing their own emergency currency, and the infrastructure to do so cheaply was well established.
Konrad Hanf of Hamburg handled a significant volume of northern German Notgeld commissions during this period, producing workmanlike but competent small-denomination notes for clients who needed a quick, credible solution.