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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Aschersleben |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue and green on a light green cross-hatched guilloche ground, with a decorative floral border at the corners. A large central vignette set against a dark blue sky presents a panoramic townscape of Aschersleben, with a tall Gothic church spire rising above tree-lined rooftops and a second tower visible to the left. The large green numeral '25' and abbreviation 'Pf' occupy the upper left of the vignette, while a white scroll cartouche at the base carries the town name 'Aschersleben' flanked by decorative stars. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 Pf Aschersleben |
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Aschersleben's municipal administration issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that paralyzed German retail commerce in 1920 — a crisis driven by coin hoarding and the collapse of metal supplies after the war. Thousands of German towns issued their own Kleingeldersatz at this moment, but the quality varied wildly. Buhé, a local printer, handled this series, which places it firmly in the category of purely functional municipal emergency currency rather than the decorative Serienscheine produced for collector sale.
The DeNG reference suffix .1 indicates this is the first known type within the 50-series for Aschersleben — useful when distinguishing it from any subsequent variants or reprints within the same authorization.