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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Düben (City of Düben) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a letterpress vignette of the Düben Moorbad (moorland spa) printed in dark ink on a green-tinted ground, showing the main spa building flanked by lower annexes with flagpoles bearing pennants, ornamental gardens in the foreground, and a clouded sky above. The caption 'MOORBAD' is set in capitals within a cartouche at the foot of the vignette, the whole enclosed within a decorative geometric border. |
| Reverse lettering | MOORBAD |
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Düben — a small town on the Mulde river in Saxony — issued this note during the peak of Germany's postwar Kleingeldersatz crisis, when chronic coin shortages forced thousands of municipalities to print their own fractional currency. Gebrüder Parcus in Munich handled a substantial share of this municipal notgeld work, producing notes for communities across Germany that lacked access to larger printing houses.
The Parcus firm's involvement is worth noting: their lithographic output for notgeld issuers was prolific enough that their house style is sometimes recognizable across unrelated series.