25 Pfennig

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.