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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Hildburghausen (City of Hildburghausen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#608.1 |
| Obverse description | A polychrome vignette at centre presents a riverside townscape of Hildburghausen — the 'Lechmühle' — with a church tower and large red-brick building set among dense foliage, captioned in a ruled cartouche below. Bold red Gothic numerals '25' occupy circular medallions at each upper corner, set against ornate gilt arabesque underprint panels; the heading 'Notgeld der Stadt' runs across the top margin in red Gothic script, with 'Hildburghausen' filling the lower margin in matching type. The overall colour scheme combines rich polychrome printing with golden ornamental borders. |
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| Reverse lettering | No 124736 25 Pfennig Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht binnen 3 Monaten nach Bekanntmachung eingelöst wird |
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Hildburghausen is a small Thuringian town with an outsized place in German cultural history — it was the residence of the ducal court that produced the 1804 standardized German orthography conference, and the hometown of the publisher Joseph Meyer, whose Bibliographisches Institut eventually gave the world Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. None of that matters much to this note, which exists for a single mundane reason: the catastrophic small-coin shortage that followed World War I forced thousands of German municipalities to print their own fractional currency between 1916 and 1922.
Stadt Hildburghausen issued this Notgeld through local authorization, as virtually every comparable German town did. The DeNG 1/2 catalog reference places it firmly in the mainstream of Thuringian municipal emergency issues.