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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Diez (City Treasury of Diez) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown on cream paper in a bold woodcut style, the obverse carries large numeral '25' at upper left and right flanking a central townscape vignette of Diez, rendered in a stark linear graphic technique with a church tower and rooftops visible. Below the vignette, the town name 'Diez' appears in large Gothic blackletter script. Flanking text panels carry the validity clause at lower left and the redemption point notice at lower right, with the designer's signature 'R. Fuchs' and the date '19' at bottom right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Diez a. d. Lahn Diez, Nov. 1919 Der Magistrat Huk Beigeordneter 25 Pfennig Grabmal der Gräfin Walburg von Epstein i. d. Stiftskirche zu Diez a. d. Lahn 25 Pfennig |
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Diez, a small town on the Lahn in Nassau, issued this note as part of the enormous wave of municipal Notgeld that flooded Germany in 1919 when small-denomination coinage had all but vanished from circulation. The Stadtkasse — the city treasury directly, not a private bank — was the issuing authority, which was common for smaller Prussian municipalities that lacked a local savings institution with the administrative weight to take on the task.
R. Fuchs is credited as designer, suggesting local artistic involvement rather than a generic printed series farmed out to one of the major Notgeld printers. Whether the printing itself was done locally or contracted to a regional press is not established from the note's text alone.