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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bezirksverband Schwarzenberg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Reverse description | Orange-tinted reverse with the same repeated typographic underprint of 'SCHWARZENBERGBEZIRKSVERBAND' covering the entire field. A central oval vignette contains a coloured figure of a traditional Erzgebirge Schwibbogen candle-arch bearer — a folk wooden figurine dressed in regional miners' costume with two lit candles held aloft — set against a backdrop of stylised fir trees. The denomination numeral '25' appears in large bold Fraktur to the left and right of the oval vignette. |
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| Protection type | Underprint |
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Schwarzenberg's Bezirksverband — the district administrative body in what is now the Erzgebirge region of Saxony — issued this small-denomination Notgeld in 1920 as part of the widespread municipal emergency currency programme that followed Germany's postwar coin shortages. Small change had effectively vanished from circulation by 1919, hoarded or melted, leaving local authorities to paper over the gap themselves.
The underprint security feature on a note this size is worth noting — at 45 × 36 mm, the print registration tolerances left little room for error, and poorly aligned underprints are not uncommon in surviving Schwarzenberg examples.