25 Pfennig

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.