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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Geisa (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on a pale khaki stock with red accent borders, its central panel occupied by a finely engraved landscape vignette of a panoramic view of Geisa set in the Rhön hills, with wooded foreground, rolling fields, and a clouded sky. Flanking side panels in a folk-art style carry two-line verse inscriptions in Gothic script, with stylised floral ornaments above and below; denomination ovals reading 'Pfg' appear in the lower corners and numeral '25' cartouches in the upper corners. |
| Reverse lettering | Noch einmal seh im Abendgold ich schimmern rings die Höhn Dann zahl ich gern den letzten Gold leb wohl mein Tal der Rhön 25 Pfg |
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Geisa is a small town in the Rhön, and like thousands of German municipalities in 1921, it was forced to print its own small-denomination notes because the Reichsbank simply could not keep pace with demand for low-value coinage during the postwar inflation spiral. This series was designed by Heinz Schiesta and printed by J. A. Schwarz in Lindenberg im Allgäu — a Bavarian press far removed from Thuringia, which was not unusual given how overstretched regional printers were at the time.
The DeNG reference number suggests this belongs to a nine-variant sequence, likely differentiated by serial number ranges or minor typographic details across the run.