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80 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Altona |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 95 × 64 mm |
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| Obverse description | The central field is occupied by a woodcut-style vignette of the three-towered façade of St. Trinitatis church, rendered in orange and black tones with the city arms displayed at the base of the towers. A green panel in the lower portion carries the place and date of issue, beneath which four manuscript signatures of the Magistrat appear in a row. The printer's imprint of H. W. Köbner & Co. GmbH is set in the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | DIESER SCHEIN WIRD 2 WOCHEN NACH AUFRUF IM ALTONAER AMTS-BLATT UNGÜLTIG ALTONA-E. 12. Dezember 1921 DER MAGISTRAT (Translation: This note will be invalid 2 weeks after notice in the Altonaer Official Gazette. Altona-E., 12 December 1921. The Magistrate.) |
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Altona's municipal authority issued this 80 Pfennig note during the acute coin shortage that plagued German cities in the early 1920s — a period when Kleingeldscheine proliferated at the local level precisely because the Reichsbank could not keep small-denomination coinage in circulation. The 80 Pfennig face value is notably awkward, neither a round nor a conventional fractional sum, suggesting it was calibrated to meet a specific transactional need rather than issued as part of a tidy series.
Altona at this point was still an independent Prussian city, administratively separate from Hamburg until their forced merger in 1937.