Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Genthin (City of Genthin) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Paper |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Genthin. Otto von Bismarck, dem Ehrenbürger der Stadt Genthin, zum Gedächtnis.- 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: Offsetdruck Arthur Kirchner, Erfurt. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark navy blue with a yellow border frame and yellow lettering. A boldly executed woodcut-style portrait vignette of a young Otto von Bismarck in three-quarter view, rendered in strong white-reserve line work against the dark ground, fills the central field. A Gothic-letterform aphorism in yellow is divided by horizontal rules above and below the portrait. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Genthin is a small town in the Magdeburg district of Saxony-Anhalt, and this note is a product of the Kleingeldersatz crisis that swept Weimar Germany in 1920–1922. The Reichsbank's inability to supply adequate small-denomination coinage — driven by wartime metal shortages and postwar hoarding — forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own emergency fractional currency. Genthin was one of thousands that did exactly that.
Two Erfurt printers share credit here, suggesting the job was split between design and press work — Alfred Hanf and Arthur Kirchner both operated out of the same city, a common arrangement for small Notgeld commissions.