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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Probstzella (Municipality of Probstzella, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Green-tinted reverse printed in dark olive-green, centred on an oval landscape vignette of the Probstei Zella monastery complex set amid wooded Thuringian hills, with a church tower and surrounding buildings rendered in fine line engraving. Decorative scroll banners above and below the vignette carry a rhyming verse in Fraktur script. Corner scrolls repeat the denomination '25 Pfg', and vertical inscriptions on the lateral borders read 'Probstei Zella' and '1150–1526', referencing the historical dates of the monastery. A small monogram or printer's mark appears at lower left. |
| Reverse lettering | Ach, hätten wir das Hochgericht der alten Zeit noch stehn und könnten alle Wucherer am Galgen baumeln sehn! Probstei Zella 1150–1526 25 Pfg |
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Probstzella is a small rail junction village in the Thuringian highlands, notable primarily as the crossing point on the Saalfeld–Ludwigstadt line where the later East-West German border would bisect the tracks during the Cold War. This 1921 Notgeld emission belongs to the inflationary surge of small-denomination municipal emergency coinage that flooded Germany following the coin shortages of the World War I years — thousands of Gemeinden issued their own scrip, almost none of it redeemed in full.
The printed date of 30 April 1945 is almost certainly a cataloging or data error. No German municipal authority was producing dated Notgeld issues on the day Hitler died in Berlin, with American forces already in Thuringia.