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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Düben (City of Düben) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and dark green Notgeld voucher on light paper, with a fine guilloche underprint at centre bearing a large stylised numeral '25' watermark-style vignette. The denomination 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig' is inscribed in large Gothic blackletter script across the upper portion, beneath which 'GUTSCHEIN / DER STADT DÜBEN' appears in bold Roman capitals. The lower section carries printed facsimile signatures of the Magistrat and the Stadtverordnetenvorsteher, the issuance place 'DÜBEN' and date 'Januar 1921', along with a serial number; the printer's imprint 'GEBR. PARCUS, MÜNCHEN.' appears below the outer border. A decorative dark green frame with repeating diamond and arch motifs encloses the note, and the motto 'DÜBEN UND HEIDE / GOTT SCHÜTZE BEIDE' runs along the top inner border. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 25 ALTES SCHLOSS |
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Düben — the small Saxo-Prussian town on the Mulde river — issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in 1921, when coin metal was too valuable to mint at face value and official Reichsbank supply couldn't keep pace with local demand. Thousands of German municipalities resorted to their own Notgeld, and Düben was one of them. Gebrüder Parcus of Munich, a firm that handled an enormous volume of this municipal emergency paper, printed the run.
The Parcus house was prolific enough that their production quality varied considerably across clients — smaller orders from minor towns like Düben tended toward simpler designs and lighter paper stock than the elaborate collectible series commissioned by larger cities.