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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Triebes (Stadtgemeinde Triebes, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 90 × 56 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in salmon-pink and dark blue-green on plain paper, with a decorative Art Nouveau border of stylised foliage and four circular medallions at the corners and midpoints bearing local trade symbols — a seated figure, a woodworking plane, and architectural vignettes. A large central oval cartouche carries the issuer's name and date text in bold letterpress. The denomination numeral '25' appears in large Gothic figures at the upper left and upper right corners. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into two panels: the left panel carries the denomination '25 Pf' in ornate blue script above the voucher text in bold black letterpress, framed by decorative rosette borders. The right panel presents a woodcut-style vignette of a two-storey local building set among trees, rendered in black and salmon-pink, with a German proverb inscribed in a banner below the image. The printer's imprint 'OTTO HENNING A.-G. GREIZ' appears in small letterpress at the lower margin. |
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Triebes was a small industrial town in the Reuss region of Thuringia, and its Städtische Sparkasse issued this note during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany in 1921 — a period when municipal and commercial bodies across the country were printing their own Kleingeldersatz to keep daily transactions moving. Otto Henning A.G. in nearby Greiz was a regional printer that handled a significant volume of Thuringian Notgeld, which accounts for the relatively clean typography typical of their output.
Triebes itself never issued a large or particularly varied Notgeld series, making individual denominations from this authority modestly scarce by collector standards.