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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Salzwedel (Notgeld) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Tan and dark brown letterpress note with the city arms of Salzwedel at centre — a quartered shield bearing two red eagles and a key, surmounted by a crenellated tower — flanked on either side by the large red numeral '25' over the word 'Pfennig'. A scroll cartouche at top carries the denomination legend in Gothic script, and a bold banner at the foot reads 'Salzwedel'. The date 'Salzwedel, 15. Dez. 1921', the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat', two manuscript signatures, a serial number at lower left, and a validity clause at lower left complete the face. |
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| Reverse description | Tan and dark brown note with a central colour vignette of the Neupervertor (Neueperver Gate), a tall Gothic brick gate-tower set between flanking street facades, captioned 'DAS NEUPERVER TOR' beneath the vignette. The large red denomination numeral '25' with abbreviation 'Pfg.' appears to the left and right of the vignette, and the town name 'Salzwedel' is printed in a bold lower banner in Gothic script. The heading 'Gutschein der Stadt' runs across the top in matching Gothic lettering. |
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Salzwedel's 1921 Notgeld issue came at the height of the small-change crisis gripping Weimar Germany, when coin metal was hoarded and municipalities were effectively left to print their own subsidiary currency. Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a minor regional printer who handled a large number of these municipal emergency issues across the Prussian provinces — functional work, produced quickly and in limited runs to meet immediate need rather than for collectors, though the collector market absorbed many before they ever circulated.
Salzwedel itself, an old Hanseatic town in the Altmark, had been administratively part of the Prussian Province of Saxony since 1816. Worth noting: Koch's Halberstadt imprint appears on notes for several neighboring municipalities in the same period, suggesting a coordinated regional print order.