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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Eisenach (Wartburgstadt) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Size | 58 × 44 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green and blue letterpress Notgeld voucher with a central biconvex green vignette bearing the Gothic blackletter legend 'Pfennig Gutschein', flanked by the denomination numeral '25' in blue at upper left and upper right, and a circular municipal seal centred within the vignette. The stippled blue surround carries the issuing text 'zahlen die städt. Kassen für dies.' across the central field, with the issuer name 'Eisenach' and validity clause appearing in the lower register. The authorising legend 'Der Vorstand der Wartburgstadt / Der Stadtkämmerer' with a facsimile manuscript signature closes the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 Pfg. 25 Pfg. |
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Eisenach's "Wartburgstadt" notgeld of 1919 belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency currency that swept Germany as coin shortages bit hard in the immediate postwar period. The city's identity was inseparable from the Wartburg fortress above it — hence the subtitle on the issue — and local authorities leaned into that association when commissioning the series.
The print date of 30 April 1945 in the catalog data is almost certainly a later administrative notation, not the actual production date; the note itself is a 1919 issue.