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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Blankenburg am Harz, City of |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | ES GRÜNE DIE TANNE / ES WACHSE DAS ERZ, GOTT SCHENKE UNS ALLEN / EIN FRÖHLICHES HERZ (Translation: Green the fir / grow the ore, God give us all / a happy heart) Gegen diesen Gutschein zahlen umsehende Firmen 25 Pfennig an den Überbringer LOUIS KOCH, HALBERSTADT |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a central text panel listing the participating redemption firms in two columns, headed by the issuance date 'Blankenburg (Harz), den 15. Oktober 1920'. A small vignette of a mountain landscape with a figure appears behind the text. The denomination '25' is repeated in large numerals at each corner within a dark decorative border, with validity and redemption conditions printed vertically in narrow side panels at left and right. |
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Blankenburg am Harz issued this Notgeld note in the chaotic early Weimar period, when hundreds of German municipalities were printing their own small-denomination scrip to address the severe shortage of fractional coinage. Louis Koch was a Halberstadt commercial printer — not a security printing house — which is exactly what you'd expect from a town of Blankenburg's modest scale. The reference number suggests this belongs to a documented series of at least four to five known varieties, likely distinguished by color, serial range, or minor typographic differences rather than substantive design changes.