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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Nordhausen |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Size | 90 × 50 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über 25 Pfennig Nordhausen, den 28. Okt. 1919 Magistrat der Stadt Nordhausen No. |
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| Reverse lettering | Dieser Gutschein wird von allen städtischen Kassen jederzeit in Zahlung genommen; er verliert seine Gültigkeit wenn er nicht innerhalb dreier Monate nach öffentlicher Aufforderung des Magistrats zur Einlösung vorgelegt wird. FABER, MAGDEBURG |
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Nordhausen's municipal emergency currency was issued in 1919 during the severe coin shortage that followed Germany's defeat and the economic dislocation of demobilization. The Magistrat — the city's administrative council — was among hundreds of German municipal authorities that filled the vacuum left by an effectively dysfunctional central supply of small change. Faber of Magdeburg handled an enormous volume of this kind of Kleingeldersatz work for municipalities across Saxony and Prussia, which makes the printing unremarkable but the issuing authority's specific financial circumstances worth noting.
Nordhausen was a significant industrial town, home to distilleries and metalworks, with a working population that needed fractional currency daily. That practical pressure, not civic pride, drove the issue.