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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Fritzlar (City of Fritzlar) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on smooth fine white paper with a black border composed of diagonal criss-cross lines forming a decorative frame. The note carries a serial number rendered in raster (Nr.) format. The overall layout is simple and typographic, consistent with municipal Notgeld emergency issue printing of the period. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse repeats the same typographic text as the obverse, carrying the voucher legend, denomination, validity clause, date, and issuing authority inscription within a matching black criss-cross bordered frame on white paper. |
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Fritzlar's 1920 Notgeld issue belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency money that flooded Germany following the postwar coin shortage — the Reichsbank had effectively ceased supplying small-denomination coinage to local authorities, forcing towns to print their own. Fritzlar, a small cathedral city in Hesse with a population well under ten thousand, would have had its notes designed and printed locally or through one of the regional Notgeld print houses that serviced dozens of similar municipalities simultaneously.
The F35.3a variant designation within the DeNG catalog suggests at least minor printing or paper differences from sibling issues in the same series — worth confirming against the F35.1 and F35.2 listings before grading.