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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Nachterstedt (Municipality of Nachterstedt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, also printed in violet-blue, is laid out in a bold woodcut typographic style within a wavy-rule border. A large central oval cartouche bearing a stylised guilloche element carries the inscription 'GEMEINDE NACHTERSTEDT', flanked on each side by the large numeral '25'. A two-line notice of redemption appears above, and a validity clause runs across the lower panel. |
| Reverse lettering | DIESER GUTSCHEIN WIRD VON DER GEMEINDEKASSE EINGELÖST GEMEINDE NACHTERSTEDT 25 ER BEHÄLT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT BIS ZUM ÖFFENTLICHEN AUFRUF |
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Nachterstedt is a small mining settlement in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued low-denomination Notgeld to plug the coin shortage that had persisted since the war. The 25 Pfennig notes of this series fall within the later "Serienscheine" phase — produced with enough graphic ambition to attract collectors even at the time of issue, a fact the municipalities were not unaware of. Some deliberately printed short runs to generate revenue from philatelists rather than from actual commerce.