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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeindevorstand zu Thale a. H. (Municipal Council of Thale am Harz) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Pink guilloche underprint reverse with the heading 'Weltkriegsjahr 1918.' in bold blackletter at top center. A central oval guilloche medallion carries a heraldic vignette, around which a patriotic rhyming couplet is printed in a circular arrangement in red ink. Below the medallion, two lines of text in Fraktur confirm redemption by the municipal treasury and state the validity deadline. |
| Reverse lettering | Weltkriegsjahr 1918. Wenn oftmals auch der Magen knurrt Ein guter Thaler niemals murrt Den Betrag zahlt die Gemeindekasse jederzeit aus. Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1919. |
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Thale am Harz is a small industrial town in the Harz mountains, best known for its ironworks. This 25 Pfennig Notgeld was issued in 1918 by the municipal council under the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany as the war drained silver and copper from domestic circulation — Reichsbank coin simply stopped reaching ordinary transactions, and thousands of municipalities were left to print their own stop-gap paper.
The Gemeindevorstand issues from this period were strictly utilitarian emergency instruments, not the decorative collector-oriented Notgeld that flooded the market from 1920 onward. A 1918 municipal piece like this one was meant to be spent locally and worn out.