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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Oberhof i. Thür. (Municipality of Oberhof, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Size | 90 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | Blue-grey letterpress underprint of crossed skis and pine branches forms the background, over which a central oval cartouche carries the redemption text in Fraktur script, with a manuscript signature of the Gemeindevorst below. The denomination '25 Pf.' appears in bold Gothic numerals at the upper left and right corners, with the series letter 'AN' at the left and the serial number and date '15. Dezember 1919' at the right. A decorative banner across the lower portion carries a verse in two parts, with 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig' spelled out in large Fraktur type along the bottom edge. |
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| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Oberhof i/Thür. Kurort und Winter-Sportplatz – 825 m ü. d. M. 25 PFENNIG Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig |
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Oberhof sits at roughly 800 meters in the Thuringian Forest and by 1919 was already established as a winter sports resort — an unusual economic base for a municipality issuing notgeld. The practical shortage of small Reichsmark coinage following the war hit tourist communities particularly hard, since seasonal cash transactions depended on exact change in ways that a factory town's weekly wage payments simply didn't.
Like most Thuringian municipal notgeld of this period, validity was typically restricted to local circulation and expired within months of issue.