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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Eldagsen (City of Eldagsen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Eldagsen 25 Pfennig Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit am 1.2.22 Eldagsen, den 1.6.21 Der Magistrat |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a full-colour lithographic vignette of a public building — likely the Eldagsen town hall — set amid mature trees, with a German tricolour flag flying from the rooftop tower and two pedestrian figures in the foreground. The denomination '25' appears in each of the four corners within yellow circular medallions, all set against a dark ornamental scrollwork border. Below the central vignette, a two-column humorous verse in Gothic script references the use of paper money in lieu of gold and silver coinage. |
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Eldagsen was a small town in the Hanover region — population a few thousand — and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own Notgeld to fill the chronic small-change shortage that plagued the early Weimar years. The federal mint simply could not keep low-denomination coinage in circulation fast enough to meet demand, and local authorities were left to improvise.
The DeNG reference places this within a catalogued series of five varieties, suggesting Eldagsen issued across multiple printings or design states — unusual output for a town of this size.