WITH BOTH THE 10 ANDÂ THE 25 PFENNIG NOTES
These 2 emergency notes are among 2 of the more rare issued by the Bielefeld authority in 1921.
Depicting the local produce in cartoon form we see the turnip and the sugarbeet. Â Both root vegetables were key to survival during the First World War.
The notes are in good condition and despite light creasing are worthy of any collection.
Bielefeld
Denomination 25 Pfennig
Width 80 mm x Height 51 mm
Issue Start Date 1921
Cartoon depiction of a sugarbeet
Bielefeld
Denomination 10 Pfennig
Width 80 mm x Height 51 mm
Issue Start Date 1921
Cartoon depiction of a turnip
Between 1904 and 1930, Bielefeld grew, opening a rebuilt railway station, a municipal theatre, and finally, the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle concert hall, renowned for its excellent acoustics. The Dürkopp car was produced 1898-1927. After printing emergency money (German: Notgeld) in 1923 during the inflation in the Weimar Republic, Bielefeld was one of several towns that printed very attractive and highly collectable banknotes with designs on silk, linen and velvet. These pieces were issued by the Bielefeld Stadtsparkasse (town’s savings bank) and were sent all around the world in the early 1920s. These pieces are known as ‘stoffgeld’ – that is, money made from fabric.
*Information taken from Wikipedia for educational purposes only
