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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Staßfurt (City of Staßfurt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Staßfurt. 25 Pfg Drei Monate nach Bekanntmachung ungültig DRUCK: HIMMER AUGSBURG. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in matching green and brown tones, with the lateral panels bearing crossed mining hammers above the Staßfurt municipal shield and the miners' greeting 'Glück auf' in Gothic script, repeated on both sides. The central vignette presents a detailed underground scene of the Berlepsch-Schacht potash mine's tunnel haulage ('Streckenförderung'), with ore wagons on rails and a miner standing between them beneath a vaulted gallery. The lower panel carries the date of issue 'Staßfurt, den 1. September 1921', the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat', and two manuscript facsimile signatures. |
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Staßfurt, in Saxony-Anhalt, was the site of Germany's first commercial potash mining operation — an industry that defined the town through the Wilhelmine period and into Weimar. This 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the flood of emergency municipal coinage substitutes produced during the postwar coin shortage, when metal was scarce and the Reichsbank was occupied with larger monetary crises than supplying small change to provincial industrial towns.
J. P. Himmer of Augsburg was a prolific Notgeld printer, handling dozens of municipal contracts simultaneously during this period — which occasionally shows in registration consistency across the series.