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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Staßfurt (City of Staßfurt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in olive-green and brown tones, with the same decorative corner cartouche border as the obverse. The upper register bears the inscription "Wiege des Kali-Bergbaues" (Cradle of Potash Mining) in Gothic script, flanked by denomination numerals "25" in the corner panels. The central vignette illustrates a group of miners seated and gathered around a table inside a timber-framed mine shelter, rendered in fine brown letterpress line work, with a banner inscription above; the lower margin carries the issue date "Staßfurt, den 1. September 1921" alongside the issuing authority "Der Magistrat" with two facsimile signatures, while the lateral panels display crossed mining hammers above the town arms and the miners' salutation "Glück auf" in Gothic script. |
| Reverse lettering | Wiege des Kali-Bergbaues. 25 Glück auf Ist auch das Salz im Überfluß, — Die Speis man nicht versalzen muß! Staßfurt, den 1. September 1921 Der Magistrat |
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Staßfurt, in the Prussian province of Saxony, had been the center of Germany's potash mining industry since the 1860s — the first commercially exploited potash deposits in the world were sunk there. By 1921, the town was issuing Notgeld like hundreds of other German municipalities, not from any local banking crisis but because the Reichsbank had simply failed to produce enough small-denomination coinage to meet everyday demand. J. P. Himmer in Augsburg was one of the more prolific commercial printers servicing this wave of municipal emergency currency across southern and central Germany.