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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Diez (City of Diez) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Size | 101 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress on red underprint, laid out in a grid of panels within a scallop-edged outer border. The large numeral '25' over the word 'Pfennig.' occupies the central panel, flanked left by the city arms showing two lions passant with the issuance inscription and date, and right by a second heraldic lion vignette alongside the magistrate's facsimile signatures. The header reads 'GUTSCHEIN ÜBER' and the footer carries 'STADT DIEZ A.D.L.' in bold gothic lettering. The printer's imprint of Johannes Pässler, Dresden-Neustadt appears along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Brown on red underprint. Two heraldic lions are shown at center, with the denomination indicated to the left and right. A series designation appears at left in black and the serial number at right in black, both printed by letterpress. |
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Diez, a small town on the Lahn river in Nassau, issued this note during the acute coin shortage of 1917 — a period when the German imperial government had progressively withdrawn silver and then copper coinage from circulation for war material, leaving municipalities scrambling to produce their own fractional paper. The Notgeld wave that followed was administratively tolerated rather than formally authorized, with each issuing body responsible for redemption from its own treasury.
Johannes Pässler in Dresden-Neustadt was a minor commercial printer who handled numerous municipal Notgeld commissions during this period, none of particular artistic distinction.