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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Aschersleben |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Buhe |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-pink guilloche underprint with a dark blue ornamental border incorporating scrollwork and corner flourishes frames the entire face. The denomination 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfennige' is set in bold Gothic blackletter script at the top, followed by the redemption and validity text in smaller Gothic hand. At lower right, the circular municipal seal of Aschersleben — an engraved city arms with a tower motif — is accompanied by two manuscript facsimile signatures above the printed serial number. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 Pf Aschersleben |
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Aschersleben's 1920 Kleingeldscheine were a direct response to the acute small-change shortage that plagued German municipalities in the early Weimar period — hoarding of metal coins had stripped local commerce of the fractional denominations it needed to function. The Magistrat issued these notes as emergency auxiliary currency, a stopgap that the national government had neither the capacity nor the coordination to prevent hundreds of towns from printing independently.
Buhe was a regional printer, and the production quality of this series reflects that — registration inconsistencies and ink variation are documented across the run.