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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Ilsenburg, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 1 January 1923 |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion carries a detailed letterpress vignette of the Schlosshof (castle courtyard) in Ilsenburg, with a banner inscription identifying the scene above the architectural view of the medieval tower and surrounding buildings. Below the vignette, a bold central numeral '25' is set within a yellow panel flanked by two text blocks: on the left, the redemption clause stating the note is redeemable at the municipal treasury until 1 January 1923, and on the right, the place and date of issue 'Ilsenburg, den 1 Juni 1921' with the signature of the Gemeindevorsteher (mayor). The place name 'Ilsenburg' appears in large Gothic script across the lower panel, with the printer's imprint 'Druckerei Appelhans, Braunschweig' printed below the border. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 Fünf und Zwanzig Pfennig 25 Gutschein Ilsenburg |
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Ilsenburg is a small town at the foot of the Brocken in the Harz, and this 25 Pfennig note is a product of the Kleingeldersatz crisis that swept German municipalities in 1921 — coin shortages driven by postwar metal hoarding and Reichsbank instability forced thousands of local authorities to print their own low-denomination emergency scrip. Appelhans in Braunschweig was a prolific workhorse printer for exactly this kind of municipal Notgeld, handling commissions from dozens of smaller Harz and Lower Saxon communities in quick succession.
Validity periods were typically short and strictly enforced; towns that failed to redeem on time faced legal pressure from regional authorities.