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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Aken an der Elbe (City of Aken on the Elbe) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in red, green, and black on cream paper, with a bold red outer border enclosing vertical-line side panels. At the top, the issuer's name 'Stadt-Aken/Elbe' is rendered in large Gothic blackletter script. The central vignette consists of a circular seal medallion on a light blue ground, showing a robed bishop standing between two crenellated towers and flanked by heraldic shields, with a Latin legend running around the circumference. To the lower left is a validity clause in German Gothic script, and to the lower right the issue date 'Aken, i. Oktober 1921' with a manuscript signature above the legend 'Der Magistrat:'; a serial number appears beneath the central medallion. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt-Aken/Elbe SIGNETVM BVRGENSIS ECCLESIAE MAGDEBVRGENSIS FIDELIS AQVENSIS Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit 3 Monate nach Bekanntmachung. Aken, i. Oktober 1921. Der Magistrat: No. |
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Aken an der Elbe was a small Saxony-Anhalt town with no particular monetary history of its own, which makes its 1921 Notgeld series entirely typical of the postwar Kleingeldersatz explosion — thousands of German municipalities printed their own small-denomination emergency notes between 1917 and 1922 to compensate for the disappearance of coin from circulation. The Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau was one of numerous regional printers that serviced these municipal contracts, producing runs that were often as much collectible novelties as functional currency by 1921.
By the time this note was issued, the Reichsbank had already begun efforts to suppress municipal Notgeld issuance, recognizing the chaos it introduced to an already destabilized monetary system. Many issues from this period were printed in excess of genuine circulation needs, deliberately targeting the Serienschein collector market.