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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Harzgerode (City of Harzgerode) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | WALDKURHAUS HÄNI-CHEN, WELCHE LUST FÜR MENSCHEN UND FÜR FOHLEN! SIE GEHEN AUF DIE WEIDE DORT, TU'S AUCH, DICH ZU ERHOLEN! DIESER SCHEIN VER-LIERT SEINE GÜLTIG-KEIT 3 MONATE NACH ÖFFENTLICHER AUF-KÜNDIGUNG. HARZGERODE DEN 7. Juli 1921 DER MAGISTRAT Harzgerode LOUIS KOCH & HALBERSTADT |
| Reverse description | No second image was provided; the reverse design of this Notgeld note is not described. |
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Harzgerode is a small town in the Harz district of Saxony-Anhalt, and this 25 Pfennig note belongs to the vast wave of municipal Notgeld issued across Germany between 1919 and 1922 — a direct consequence of severe coin shortages following the First World War. Hundreds of German municipalities, many far smaller than Harzgerode, commissioned their own emergency small-change notes during this period, and local printers like Louis Koch in nearby Halberstadt were kept busy filling the demand.
The DeNG reference places this within a well-documented series for the issuer, suggesting at least modest collector attention to the type.