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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Kronach (City Council of Kronach) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note carries a colour vignette of Kronach town with its castle complex set among trees and rolling meadows, rendered in a woodcut-inspired illustrative style in green, red, and black. Large red numeral '25' in bold Gothic-style digits appears in framed panels at the upper left and right corners, with 'Pf' denomination markers below each. The lower half bears the text 'Notgeld der Stadt Kronach' in large blackletter script, followed by a validity clause in smaller Gothic type, the place and year 'Kronach im Jahre 1921', and a facsimile signature of the Stadtrat, flanked by stylised decorative panels bearing the numeral '25'. |
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| Reverse lettering | Fünfundzwanzig Fünfundzwanzig 25 Pfennig F. SCHWARZ |
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Kronach is a small Franconian town best known as the birthplace of Lucas Cranach the Elder, and the local Stadtrat leaned hard on that association when commissioning its Notgeld series. F. Schwarz designed the artwork — a local name, almost certainly not a professional banknote engraver, which is exactly the point. Notgeld from this period was often conceived as collectible civic promotion as much as emergency currency, and municipalities competed openly for the most striking designs.
The 1921 Bavarian Notgeld wave followed the collapse of small-coin availability rather than any local banking crisis. Kronach's issues circulated briefly before being redeemed and invalidated, as most Stadtrat Notgeld was by late 1922.