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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Schierke, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress Notgeld note with a central oval vignette bearing a silhouette portrait of Goethe in left profile, encircled by a laurel wreath and captioned 'Goethe' beneath. The upper register carries the heading 'Goethe's Faust I. Teil' flanked by two quotation passages in Gothic script, while to the right a landscape vignette shows two figures in a Harz mountain setting. The denomination 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfg.' appears in large Gothic lettering across the centre, with the lower panel containing the issuing authority text, date, serial number in red, and a manuscript signature of the Gemeindevorsteher. |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress vignette occupying nearly the full reverse, presenting a panoramic street-scene view of Schierke im Harz — the 'Dorfstrasse' — with half-timbered houses, trees, a church steeple, and horse-drawn traffic rendered in a fine illustrative style. A scroll banner below the central image carries the place name in bold Gothic lettering, with the caption 'Dorfstrasse' in smaller type beneath. The denomination numeral '25' appears in large bold type at both the upper-left and upper-right corners within a decorative border frame. |
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Schierke is a small resort village in the Harz Mountains, and its notgeld issues reflect the peculiar economics of that environment — tourist traffic kept demand for low-denomination scrip genuinely high during the inflationary chaos of 1921, making circulation wear on these notes more common than on comparable municipal issues from industrial towns where visitors weren't cycling through the local economy.
Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional printer who produced notgeld for several Harz-area municipalities during this period. Nothing extraordinary about the production relationship, but Koch's output for this district tends toward better registration and sharper impression than many comparable small-town commissions of the same year.