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25 Pfennig

Issuer Bezirksverband Chemnitz-Land
Year 1920
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Currency Mark (1914-1924)
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Reverse description Plain cream paper with an all-over fine cross-pattern guilloche underprint in light brown. The central design consists of a large circular medallion bearing the bold numeral '25', flanked by two smaller roundels each also carrying the numeral '25', the whole group united by an ornate foliate cartouche in brown. A serial number is printed in black letterpress below the central vignette, with the printer's imprint 'R. Dulce Glauchau' in small type beneath.
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R. DULCE GLAUCHAU
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Bezirksverband Chemnitz-Land was a rural district authority in Saxony — not a municipal savings bank or city treasury, which makes this issue slightly unusual. Most Saxony Notgeld of the 1920 wave came from town councils or commercial chambers; district-level administrative bodies were less common issuers, and their notes tended to circulate within a patchwork of smaller communities rather than a single defined town.

Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau handled a number of small Notgeld contracts across the Zwickau-Chemnitz corridor during this period — a regional job printer pressed into emergency currency work like dozens of others across postwar Germany.

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