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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Gottesberg (Lower Silesia), Magistrat |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Reverse description | The centre of the reverse is occupied by the municipal coat of arms of Gottesberg, a quartered and divided shield bearing a red-and-white chequered field in the upper left, a hop branch in the upper right, and three blue mountain peaks on a red field in the lower half, all rendered in vivid polychrome lithography against an underprint vignette of industrial headframes. The denomination '25 PF.' appears in red within ornate cartouches at left and right, flanked by tall decorative panels of stylised floral and scroll ornaments in teal and green. The town name 'Gottesberg' is inscribed in Gothic script above the shield, and the miner's salutation 'Glück auf!' appears in a ribbon panel below. |
| Reverse lettering | Gottesberg 25 PF. Glück auf! |
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Gottesberg — now Boguszów-Gorce in southwestern Poland — was a coal-mining town in the Waldenburg coalfield, and its notgeld issues of 1921 reflect the acute small-change shortage that persisted in Germany well after the war ended. The Reichsbank simply could not produce low-denomination coin fast enough to meet industrial payroll demand in working towns like this one.
The DeNG reference grouping .1-2/3 indicates at least two distinct printings or paper variants catalogued under this type — worth examining side by side, as subtle differences in ink saturation and typeface registration are the primary distinguishing features.