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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Eckartsberga, City of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld voucher printed on pale ochre paper with a scalloped decorative border and circular denomination medallions in each corner bearing the numeral 25. The central text is set in Gothic blackletter script, with the denomination spelled out in large ornate lettering across the middle register. At the lower centre, the municipal seal of Eckartsberga — a circular stamp bearing a heraldic eagle — is flanked by the authority designations and two facsimile signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 Gutschein über Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig Eckartsberga Thür., 1. Aug. 1920. Der Magistrat. Die Stadtverordneten. |
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Eckartsberga is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1920, it resorted to issuing its own low-denomination Notgeld as the postwar coin shortage made small change practically unavailable. The Reichsbank's inability to keep fractional coinage in circulation — partly due to hoarding, partly due to wartime metal requisitioning — pushed this responsibility down to the municipal level, producing thousands of locally distinct issues across Germany and Austria.
Eckartsberga's output is minor in the Notgeld canon. No printing curiosity or error variant is documented for this particular issue.