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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Genthin (Der Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld 25 Pfennig Der Stadt Genthin dieser Gutschein wird von allen städt. Kassen in Zahlung genommen und verliert drei Monate nach Aufforderung zur Einlösung seine Gültigkeit. Genthin, den 1. Juli 1921 Der Magistrat 10882 |
| Reverse description | Printed in black and white with a pale blue border, the reverse is dominated by a large woodcut-style landscape vignette showing a canal or river scene with moored barges, a half-timbered house on the left bank, and an industrial skyline with tall chimneys in the background. A patriotic motto in Gothic blackletter script runs across the upper and lower margins of the dark surround, completing the decorative composition. |
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Genthin's 1921 Kleingeldscheine belong to the vast wave of municipal notgeld issued across Germany as postwar coin shortages persisted well beyond the armistice. The Magistrat authorized these notes largely because small-denomination metal currency had been systematically hoarded or melted — 25 Pfennig coins in particular had all but vanished from everyday commerce in smaller provincial towns like Genthin, a canal-junction settlement in the Magdeburg Börde with little economic weight of its own.
Alfred Hanf of Erfurt was a workhorse printer for this genre, handling notgeld commissions from dozens of small municipalities across central Germany during 1920–1922. Nothing technically irregular is documented for this specific issue.