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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Neustadt an der Orla |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Red-printed reverse on cream paper, sharing the same repeating ornamental border framework as the obverse, with the denomination '25 PFENNIG' in large numerals at upper left and right. The central vignette is a detailed line-engraved view of the Neustadt an der Orla town hall, a multi-gabled Renaissance structure with a prominent clock tower, set within an arched cartouche. Smaller vignettes in the left and right margins depict local industrial and agricultural scenes respectively, and a validity notice is printed in a panel at the base. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 PFENNIG Gültig bis auf Widerruf durch öffentliche Bekanntmachung. |
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Neustadt an der Orla is a small Thuringian town, and this 25 Pfennig note belongs to the vast wave of Kleingeldscheine issued across Germany in 1920 when chronic coin shortages — driven by postwar metal scarcity and hoarding — forced municipalities to print their own low-denomination scrip. Thousands of issuing authorities did the same, from major cities down to market towns with populations in the hundreds.
Paper Notgeld of this type was rarely redeemed at face value once the immediate shortage passed; most was simply discarded or kept as novelty, which is why surviving examples vary so widely in condition.