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80 Pfennigs

Issuer Gemeinde Bokelsess (Municipality of Bokelsess), Amtsbezirk Hörnerkirchen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Year 1921
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Size 96.2 × 64.3 mm
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Obverse description Black-ground note with a yellow border frame and Art Nouveau-style design printed in yellow and ochre. To the left, the denomination '80 Pf.' appears within a stylised floral rosette; to the right, a circular vignette encloses a heraldic pelican. Flowing decorative tendrils connect both roundels across the dark field, with the issuing authority's legend in italic script along the lower yellow panel.
Obverse lettering 80 Pf. Notgeld der Gemeinde Bokelsess, Amtsbezirk Hörnerkirchen.
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Bokelsess is a small village in the Hörnerkirchen administrative district — the kind of rural Schleswig-Holstein settlement that would never have issued its own currency under normal circumstances. The 80 Pfennig denomination is itself unusual; most Notgeld series stuck to round figures, and the choice of 80 suggests this was calculated to fill a very specific gap in local small-change supply rather than issued as a collectible set.

Konrad Hanf was a Hamburg printer who handled a substantial volume of Schleswig-Holstein municipal Notgeld during 1921, when the inflationary spiral was accelerating but hyperinflation had not yet peaked.

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