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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Weida (City of Weida, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 70 × 50 mm |
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| Reverse description | Red ground with decorative scroll ornaments in the upper corners and bold Gothic numerals '25 Pfennig' at upper left and right. A central diamond-shaped vignette in teal and yellow depicts a charitable soup-kitchen scene — 'Quäker Speisung' (Quaker feeding) — showing a figure ladling food to seated children at a yellow-draped table, rendered in a simplified illustrative style. Flanking the vignette, two stanzas of verse text are set in Gothic script, and the full issuer legend runs in large Gothic lettering along the bottom edge. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 Pfennig Quäker Speisung Guten Menschenfürmahn spricht oft ein himmlischer Geist zu: Daß sie fühlen die Not, als den armen Bruder bevorsteht. Notgeld der Stadt Weida |
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Weida is a small town in eastern Thuringia, and this note is a product of the postwar notgeld wave — the municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany between roughly 1919 and 1922 as the central money supply collapsed under reparations debt and runaway inflation. By 1921 the phenomenon had become almost self-sustaining: towns issued notes partly for genuine small-change shortages and partly because collectors were buying them, generating modest municipal revenue in the process.
Johannes Arndt in Jena handled a substantial volume of Thuringian notgeld printing during this period, supplying numerous small municipalities across the region.