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70 Pfennig Raa-Besenbek
| Issuer | Gemeinde Raa-Besenbek |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 70 Pfennigs (70 Pfennige) (0.70) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black and two shades of green on white paper, the central vignette within a dark oval frame shows two women seated on stools engaged in needlework or spinning, with a black cat at their feet and a window in the background. The denomination "70 Pfg." appears in circular green medallions at left and right, while a curved ribbon banner at the top carries the issuer inscription in Gothic script. The outer border is composed of a repeating geometric pattern in green and black, and a motto in Gothic lettering runs along the lower ribbon. |
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| Obverse lettering | 70 Pfennig(2) Notgeld der Gemeinde RAA.BESENBEK Amtsbez.Kurzenmoor Dieser Schein verliert Seine Gültigkeit am 31.Dezember 1921 Amtsvorsteher Der Finanzausschuss |
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Raa-Besenbek is a rural parish in Schleswig-Holstein with a population that has rarely exceeded a few hundred — an almost comically small issuing authority for any currency instrument. This note belongs to the vast wave of German municipal Notgeld produced in 1921, when chronic small-coin shortages pushed even tiny communities into emergency paper issuance. Konrad Hanf was a Hamburg commercial printer with no particular prestige in the Notgeld trade, which likely kept production costs low enough to justify the run for a village treasury operating on a minimal budget.