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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Nordhausen (notgeld), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#987.1h |
| Obverse description | Central vignette of a full-length armoured knight known as 'Der Riese' (The Giant), rendered in blue-grey tones, standing upright on a decorative pedestal and holding a spear in his right hand and a sword at his left side, set within an arched yellow-ochre panel. Flanking text panels at left and right carry the redemption clause and issuance details respectively, while the denomination '25 Pfg.' appears in bold Gothic lettering at upper right and 'Nordhausen a/H' at upper left. The lower border carries the series designation 'Gutschein L' at left and the serial number at right, all within a decorative dot-and-dash frame. |
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| Obverse lettering | Nordhausen a/H Der Riese 25 Pfg. Dieser Schein verliert 3 Monate nach öffentlicher Aufforderung zur Einlösung seine Gültigkeit. Nordhausen a. H., den 1. Mai 1921. Der Magistrat Gutschein L №227716 (Translation: This note loses its validity 3 months after a public request to redeem it. Nordhausen a. H., May 1, 1921. The Magistrate Voucher L №227716) |
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Nordhausen issued this piece during the acute small-change shortage of 1921, when municipal and civic authorities across Germany were printing their own emergency scrip to keep local commerce moving. By that point the Reichsbank simply could not produce low-denomination coinage fast enough to meet demand, and cities like Nordhausen had been issuing Notgeld of various forms for several years already.
The DeNG suffix designation "1h" places this within a known variant sequence for this specific issue — collectors should note that Nordhausen produced multiple printings with subtle textual and color differences that the primary catalog tracks carefully.