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99 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bad Honnef, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 105 × 72 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into three horizontal registers: a top frieze of diagonal pen-drawn knives against a hatched ground, a central panoramic vignette of the Siebengebirge mountain silhouette surmounted by a mural crown, and a lower register bearing the coloured arms of Bad Honnef — a quartered shield in red, white, and blue with crenellated pales — flanked on each side by the large numeral '99' above 'PFENNIGE' in bold block lettering. Redemption and validity conditions are printed in stylised Gothic script to the left and right of the shield, with the serial number and issue date 'BAD HONNEF 1.10.1921' along the lower margin, accompanied by two manuscript facsimile signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | WER HAT MIT MEINEM MESSERCHEN GESCHNITTEN? 99 PFENNIGE 99 PFENNIGE DER GUTSCHEIN WIRD EINGELÖST BEI ALLEN HONNEFER GELDINSTITUTEN ER VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT EINEN MONAT NACH AUFRUF IN DER HONNEFER VOLKSZEITUNG VERKEHRSVEREINE: BAD HONNEF UND RHÖNDORF No. 287931 BAD HONNEF 1.10.1921 |
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Bad Honnef's 99 Pfennig denomination is the note, not the misprint. Dozens of German municipalities issued Notgeld in odd fractional values during the 1921 inflationary surge, deliberately choosing denominations like 99 Pfennig to sidestep Reichsbank regulations that technically governed notes issued at or above round values. Whether the legal logic was sound mattered less than the practical result — local scrip flooded the Rhineland while central monetary authority was visibly crumbling.
The print run of over twelve million pieces is unusually large for a Kleingeldschein of this type, suggesting Bad Honnef was supplying neighboring communities as well as its own retail trade.