Catalog
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
| Issuer | Neinstedt, Municipality of |
|---|---|
| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Druckerei Poessl, Bad Suderode, Germany |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Neinstedt am Harz Sau rügge alles wedder in't Laot. Dä Freude war daräßber graat. Nu salle denn dat woll hen ook drieß'n, wenn de Körche nich salle im Dörpe bließ'n. Der Schein gilt noch 1 Mon. nach Aufruf. Neinstedt, im Sept. 1921 Der Gemeindevorst. |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Schlüssel u. Klöppelkrieg 1661: Freudenfest der Neinst. Jungfrauen nach Höhnes Heimkehr. 75 |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Neinstedt is a small village in the Harz region, and like hundreds of similarly modest German municipalities it issued Notgeld during the inflationary spiral of the early 1920s — not out of civic pride but out of sheer necessity, as small-denomination Reichsmark coinage had effectively vanished from everyday commerce. The printer, Druckerei Poessl in nearby Bad Suderode, was a regional operation that serviced several of these local emergency issues, which accounts for the shared aesthetic DNA visible across notes from this corner of Saxony-Anhalt.
The DeNG reference places this within a numbered subseries, suggesting at least six design variants for this denomination alone — unusually prolific output for a settlement of Neinstedt's size.