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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Leopoldshall (City of Leopoldshall) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Glück auf! Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit 3 Monate nach öffentlicher Ankündigung. Leopoldshall, den 25. Juli 1921. Der Magistrat Gefördert, gemahlen und eingesackt in Seil- und Eisenbahnwagen verpackt so sorgte die Stadt in Kriegesnot im hungernden Lande für Salz u. Brot. 25 Pfg. Louis Koch, Halberstadt. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Leopoldshall i. Anh. Mühle Kali- und Steinsalzgewinnung. 25 Pfg. |
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Leopoldshall was a small industrial town in the Prussian district of Bernburg, its economy almost entirely dependent on the local potash mining operations. By 1921, Germany's postwar inflation had already made small Reichsmark coinage effectively worthless as a circulating medium, and dozens of municipalities in the Anhalt region issued their own Kleingeldersatz to cover the gap. This note is one product of that scramble.
Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist banknote firm — typical for this tier of Notgeld production, where speed and local availability mattered more than security printing.
Leopoldshall merged with the neighboring city of Staßfurt in 1950.