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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Kronach (City Council of Kronach) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Designer(s) | F. Schwarz |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfundzwanzig Notgeld Kronach 25 Pf Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach erfolgter öffentlicher Bekanntmachung. im Jahre 1921 Stadtrat: |
| Reverse description | The reverse is executed in a bold Art Nouveau woodcut style in black, tan, and red, with the central vignette comprising a large heraldic cartouche displaying the Kronach municipal arms — quarterly with roses and crowns — supported by two flanking male figures rendered in an anatomical manner. Oval panels to the left and right each contain the red numeral '25' surmounted by a crowned eagle device, enclosed within ornamental surrounds. The legend 'Fünfundzwanzig' is repeated twice across the top border, while 'Pfennig' appears in the lower left and right panels; the artist's signature 'F. Schwarz' is inscribed below the central cartouche. |
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Kronach's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — by this point, most city councils had learned from the chaotic improvisations of 1918–19 and were commissioning locally designed series with deliberate aesthetic programs rather than generic stopgap slips. F. Schwarz almost certainly refers to a local or regional commercial artist; the name appears in connection with Franconian Notgeld work from this period, though no firm attribution has been established beyond the margin credit.
Kronach, a small fortified town in Upper Franconia, was the birthplace of Lucas Cranach the Elder — a fact the city council tended to exploit in civic printing of any kind during the Weimar years.