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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Jeßnitz (City of Jeßnitz) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Pink-tinted notgeld printed in black and red, with large bold numeral '25' set within solid black panels at left and right flanks, each accompanied by the inscription 'Pfennig' below. The central field carries an oval vignette of the city arms of Jeßnitz in red — two crenellated brick towers with an ornamental finial between them — surmounted by a Gothic-script header reading 'Gutschein der Stadt Jeßnitz i/A.'. The lower margin bears validity and payment office inscriptions, two manuscript signatures, and a printed serial number. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Jeßnitz i/A. 25 Pfennig Gültig bis 3 Monate nach erfolgtem Aufruf. Zahlstelle: Der Magistrat Kämmereikasse. Der Stadtverordneten-Vorsteher |
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Jeßnitz is a small industrial town on the Mulde river in Anhalt, and like hundreds of comparable municipalities it entered the Notgeld market in 1921 not out of genuine coin shortage — that crisis had largely passed — but because the collector trade had made emergency currency briefly profitable. Towns issued attractive series knowing philatelists would absorb them before they ever reached a cash register.
The DeNG reference places this among a numbered sub-variety, suggesting the series ran to multiple design or printing states — worth checking against the .1a designation, which typically flags a paper or color distinction within the same issue date.