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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Torgau |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 92.7 × 59.0 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Not-Geld. Torgau. A.D. 1921. Gutschein für Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig. Dieser Schein verliert 1 Monat nach öffentlicher Bekanntmachung zur Einlösung seine Gültigkeit. Der Magistrat. Torgau, d. 10. Februar 1921. |
| Reverse description | Printed in blue-grey tones over a grey crosshatch underprint covering the full field, with the denomination numeral '25' repeated in each corner. A large central oval medallion contains a full-length figure of a medieval knight in plate armour carrying a halberd, set against a dark background and encircled by a Gothic-script inscription referencing the historical event of 1547; decorative rosette ornaments with red centre accents are placed at the left and right margins flanking the medallion. |
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Torgau's municipal administration issued this note as Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitute — during the coin shortage that followed Germany's post-WWI economic disruption. Thousands of German towns did the same between 1919 and 1922, but Torgau's issues are notable for being printed locally rather than contracted to the Leipzig or Dresden trade printers who handled most Saxony-area Notgeld.
The town itself would later enter history for a different reason entirely: the April 1945 meeting of American and Soviet forces on the Elbe. None of that matters here — this note belongs to a much quieter crisis, the mundane problem of finding change at a bakery in 1921.