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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Schierke, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Red-bordered Notgeld note with a central scenic vignette of the Harz mountain landscape rendered in multicolour lithography, dominated by a large oval medallion bearing a profile silhouette of Goethe on a golden ground, wreathed in green laurel, with the inscription 'Goethe' below. To the right of the vignette stand two figures in medieval costume against a wooded hillside, illustrating a scene from Goethe's Faust I. The denomination 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfg.' appears in Gothic script across the lower centre, with the serial number, issue place 'Schierke i. Harz', date '1. April 1921', and validity notice in three lower cartouches. |
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| Obverse lettering | Goethe's Faust I. Teil weil vom Ziele, Faust: So lang ich mich noch frisch auf meinen Beinen füh- le genügt mir dieser Krug Fünfundzwanzig Pfg. Dieser Schein wird jederzeit bei der Kurverwaltung eingelöst Schierke i. Harz den 1. April 1921. Der Vorstand. Ungültig 3 Monate nach Aufruf in der Wernigeröder Zeitung. LOUIS KOCH · HALBERSTADT |
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Schierke is a small resort village on the northern slope of the Brocken — the highest peak in the Harz mountains and the site of Goethe's famous Walpurgisnacht scene in Faust. This 1921 Notgeld issue was printed by Louis Koch in nearby Halberstadt, one of the more active regional printers serving the flood of municipal emergency currency that swept Germany during the postwar inflationary period.
Schierke issued its Notgeld partly as a functional necessity and partly as a collector-driven revenue scheme — by 1921, many small German towns had recognized that philatelists and collectors were snapping up Notgeld as souvenirs, and deliberately issued attractive series in excess of local need.