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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Meuselbach, Thüringer Wald |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Black and green Notgeld voucher enclosed within an ornate lace-pattern border with denomination numerals "25" at each corner. At left centre, a small vignette rendered in fine line engraving depicts a wooded hilltop with a tower among pine trees; at centre right, the denomination "25 Pf." appears in bold Gothic blackletter over a green guilloche cartouche. The issuing authority, date "den 1. Oktober 1920", and facsimile signature of the Gemeindevorstand are inscribed below the cartouche, with a patriotic verse distributed across the upper and lower margins. |
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| Reverse description | Black-on-white letterpress reverse printed entirely in Gothic blackletter, enclosed within the same decorative lace-pattern border as the obverse, with denomination numerals "25" at each corner. The issuing authority and denomination in full — "Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig" — are set in large display type at centre, followed by a block of redemption and anti-counterfeiting conditions in smaller text. A serial number is printed centrally below the legal text, with a verse couplet distributed across the upper and lower margins. |
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Meuselbach is a small glassblowing village in the Thüringer Wald, and this Notgeld issue was part of a broader regional strategy to attract collectors rather than purely address a change shortage. By 1920, many German municipalities had realized that decorative small-denomination emergency notes would be purchased and hoarded by collectors, effectively generating revenue for the issuing community at zero redemption cost.
The Thüringer Wald series notes from this period are among the more deliberately collectible of the Kleingeldscheine wave — printed in short runs, sometimes with intentional series variations to encourage multiple purchases.