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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Eschershausen (City Council of Eschershausen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note carries three vignettes in a horizontal register: at left, a two-storey half-timbered building captioned 'Wilhelm Raabe's Geburtshaus'; at centre, a panoramic townscape of Eschershausen in Braunschweig rendered in a flat graphic style; and at right, a tower and monument captioned 'Raabeturm und Denkmal'. The lower half bears the denomination value '25' in large ornamental roundels at each side, flanked by scrollwork borders in ochre and grey, with a central text panel carrying the validity and issuing authority inscriptions along with a facsimile signature. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into three vignette panels arranged across the note: at left, a rural landscape with a village church captioned 'Amelungsborn'; at centre, a wooded mountain scene surmounted by a radiant cross with ravens at upper right and a second cross silhouette, enclosing a text cartouche with a literary quotation from Wilhelm Raabe; and at right, an open valley landscape captioned 'Odfeld'. The overall colour scheme is warm ochre with grey-green tonal washes, executed in a flat Jugendstil-influenced graphic manner. |
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Eschershausen is a small town in Lower Saxony with a population that barely crested 3,000 in the early 1920s — yet like thousands of German municipalities during the postwar inflationary spiral, its city council was forced into the business of money printing when Reichsbank small-denomination coins vanished from circulation entirely. This Notgeld issue filled a genuine transactional gap, not a commemorative one.
The DeNG reference places this within the exhaustively catalogued Grabowski-Mehl notgeld corpus. The "1/2" series indicator suggests at least two distinct printings or design variants were recorded for this denomination from the same issuer.