25 Pfennig

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.