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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Brehna (City of Brehna) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue and gold Notgeld issued by the Stadt Brehna, with the denomination '25 Pfennig' in large Gothic script rendered in gold at left and right. A central vignette presents the quartered heraldic shield of the Grafschaft Brene — divided diagonally between a white field bearing three red trefoils and a gold-and-black diagonal stripe — set against a teal background with the caption 'Grafschaft Brene' and the text 'umfaßte: 14. Schweinitz-'. Stylized wheat sheaf motifs appear in the lower corners, with vertical Fraktur text in the side borders and a magistrate signature ('D. Magistrat') to the lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 25 Pf6 Pf6 H. Schiebel 21. |
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Brehna is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921, it issued Notgeld not because of any local banking crisis but because the Reichsbank simply could not keep small-denomination coinage in circulation fast enough to meet demand during the inflationary spiral. H. Schiebel of Bitterfeld — roughly 15 kilometers away — was a regional printer that handled several such municipal commissions in the area, keeping production costs low and turnaround fast.
These hyper-local issues were typically valid for only a few months before the issuing authority recalled and redeemed them, which means circulated survivors are often more interesting than uncirculated ones.