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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Corbach (Korbach), Waldeck-Pyrmont |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld with a light blue floral star-pattern underprint covering the entire field. At upper centre, the issuing authority is named in Gothic blackletter script as 'Stadt Corbach. Gutschein', with the denomination 'Fünfundzwanzig Pf.' printed below in large Gothic type; a bold red numeral '25' overprint is superimposed on the denomination area. To the left, a circular town seal vignette in dark ink bears a heraldic figure and the legend 'BÜRGERMEISTERAMT CORBACH' around the border. The lower portion carries a serial number in red, the place and date 'Corbach, 5. Dezember 1920', and two manuscript signatures above the printed caption 'Der Gemeindevorstand:'. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark purple-brown on the same floral star-pattern underprint ground. A central rectangular vignette presents a detailed townscape of Corbach dominated by the tall tower of the Kilianskirche, framed by ornamental scroll and foliate borders. Flanking the central scene, two square panels each carry the denomination '25 Pfg.' in bold numerals within decorative frames; above the central vignette, a heraldic shield displaying a six-pointed star and a cross references the town's coat of arms. |
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Korbach was the capital of the Free State of Waldeck, one of Germany's smallest sovereign territories, which formally merged with Prussia in 1929. This note was issued during the Notgeld period, when central currency was chronically short in small denominations and thousands of German municipalities printed their own emergency scrip to keep local commerce moving. Waldeck's issues are sometimes overlooked in favor of the more elaborate artistic Notgeld from larger cities, but the Korbach pieces circulated in genuine need rather than being produced primarily for the collector trade that was already distorting the market by mid-1921.