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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Schmölln (City of Schmölln, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a smiling male figure wearing a red cap, leaning forward with a pitchfork to sweep away a pile of papers and documents, rendered in a bold illustrative style against a radiating sunburst background. Vertical side panels carry rows of skull motifs in black. The denomination '25' appears in red at lower left, with the 'Pfg' abbreviation in red at lower right, and a blue Gothic-script legend 'Weg damit!' (Away with it!) across the lower centre. The artist's signature 'O. Hasse' is visible at the lower right of the central vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Schmölln Weg damit! 25 Pfg |
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Schmölln's notgeld issues of 1921 came from a town that had built its regional identity almost entirely around the button-manufacturing industry — at the time, Schmölln and its surroundings produced a significant share of Germany's bone and horn buttons, a fact the municipal authorities were apparently not shy about commemorating in local scrip. Schneider & Co. in nearby Altenburg handled a large volume of Thuringian emergency currency during this period, making them the practical default printer for dozens of small Saxon and Thuringian municipalities who needed small-denomination paper quickly.
The reference numbers 1189.1-3/4 suggest this is part of a multi-variant set, likely differentiated by serial number color or minor typographic changes — a common Schneider production habit worth checking before cataloging individual pieces separately.