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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Schleiz (City of Schleiz) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Size | 52 × 37 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 Gutschein 25 der Stadt Schleiz Fünfundzwanzig Pfennige Der Stadtgemeindevorstand. Schleiz, den 25. August 1919 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown and ochre on a beige background and divided into three vertical panels by the same decorative oval-and-dot border that frames the note. The central panel contains a finely engraved vignette of the "Alte Münze" (Old Mint) of Schleiz, a historic tower building with an onion-dome belfry and flanking trees, captioned below "Die alte Münze." The left and right panels carry a two-part aphoristic inscription in Gothic Fraktur, reading "Einst prägte man wertvolle Münzen hier." and "Jetzt druckt man die Münze auf wertlos Papier." respectively, with the denomination numeral "25" in bold at the lower corners of each lateral panel. |
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Schleiz Notgeld from 1919 falls squarely into the first wave of German municipal emergency money — issued when the postwar coin shortage became acute and the Reich simply could not produce enough small denomination coinage to keep local commerce moving. The Stadt Schleiz, a small administrative center in the Thuringian principality that had ceased to exist just the previous year with the abdication of Heinrich XXVII, was among hundreds of towns that printed their own solutions.
At this size and weight, these slips were notoriously easy to lose, damage, or simply discard once federal coinage returned — which is why genuinely uncirculated survivors are rarer than the series' modest historical profile might suggest.