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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Langensalza (City of Langensalza) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown on a yellow-cream paper, the obverse is framed by an intricate ornamental border with interlaced geometric and foliate motifs, with the denomination numeral '25' repeated in each corner. The city name 'Stadt Langensalza' is set in Gothic Fraktur script across the upper field, beneath which a small vignette of the city's heraldic towers appears flanked by the cursive legend 'Gutschein über'. A central cartouche with pointed oval guilloche surrounds the denomination 'Pfg. 25 Pfg.' in bold lettering, with the place name and date 'Langensalza 1920' below, two facsimile signatures of the Magistrat to the right, and a redemption clause in Gothic script along the lower panel. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Langensalza / Gutschein über / Pfg. 25 Pfg. / Langensalza 1920 / Der Magistrat / Dieser Schein verfällt, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach öffentlicher Aufforderung des Magistrates bei der Stadtkasse zu Langensalza eingelöst wird. |
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Langensalza notgeld from 1920 falls into the second wave of German municipal emergency money — issued not from genuine coin shortage, as in 1914–1919, but because the Reichsbank's fractional currency simply couldn't keep pace with postwar inflation and hoarding. By 1920, hundreds of German towns were printing their own small-denomination paper with little more than a rubber stamp and local authority behind it. Langensalza, a small Thuringian spa town better known for the 1866 battle where Prussian forces defeated the Hanoverian army, was one of many that issued series running to multiple denominations and design variants.
The Grasse and Bremer catalog numbers both indicate this is a specific variant within a wider Langensalza set — the "a" suffix on the Grasse reference suggests at least one additional print variant exists for this denomination.