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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadthauptkasse Aschersleben |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#50.6-7 |
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| Obverse lettering | Spar Stadthauptkasse Aschersleben Zahle dem Überbringer dieser Platzanweisung Aschersleben, den 1. Dezember 1921 Der Magistrat; Gültig bis 1 März 1922 25 Pfg. |
| Reverse description | Two-colour letterpress vignette occupying the central and left portions of the note, rendered in olive-gold and steel-blue. The central scene shows a sprawling vegetable field in the foreground under a radiant sun, with a rural silhouette of trees and farm buildings along the horizon. A vertical column of Gothic Fraktur verse is printed along the left border within a ruled frame, and to the right a bold diamond-shaped cartouche in black carries the large numeral "25" in decorative blackletter, set against a solid black background. |
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Aschersleben's municipal treasury issued this Notgeld piece during the severe coin shortage that followed Germany's postwar economic dislocation — small-denomination metal currency had effectively vanished from circulation by 1920, hoarded or melted, forcing hundreds of municipalities to print their own emergency paper substitutes. The Stadtkasse issues from this town are moderately scarce compared to the flood of Notgeld produced by larger Prussian cities.
Krelle's design credit is uncommon for issues at this denomination and level — most municipal Notgeld of this type went to unnamed commercial printers with no individual attribution.