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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Treffurt |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse lettering | Willst Du den Namen dieser Stadt, 25 Giltig bis 1. 2. 1922. Einlösbar bei der Stadtkasse. Notgeld Magistrat der Stadt Treffurt a.d. Werra den 1. 6. 1921. 25 dann reih' zusammen Blatt an Blatt. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is centred on an oval vignette executed in a woodcut manner, illustrating the former Kurmainz administrative building (Ehem. Kurmainzisch. Amtshaus) as it stood prior to 1802, printed in black on white paper. The oval is enclosed within an elaborate baroque cartouche rendered in red and yellow with scroll and foliate ornaments, a small wheel device referencing the Mainz electoral arms appearing at the lower left of the cartouche border. The denomination '25' in white on a red shield is placed at the lower right corner, while aphoristic verses in Gothic blackletter run vertically along both lateral margins. |
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Treffurt is a small town on the Werra River in Thuringia, and this 25 Pfennig Notgeld dates from the inflationary spiral of 1921 — well before the catastrophic hyperinflation of 1923, but issued during a period when chronic coin shortages had already forced hundreds of German municipalities to produce their own emergency small-denomination paper. Chr. Gerlach in Mühlhausen was a regional printer that handled numerous Notgeld commissions across Thuringia during this period, and the designer credit to M. E. Beyrer is unusually specific for a note of this type and scale.