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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtverwaltung Glashütte (Sachsen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Orange and black Notgeld note printed on cream paper, with an orange guilloche underprint incorporating two diamond-shaped rosette vignettes flanking the central text field. The denomination '25 Pfg.' appears in the upper left in Gothic script alongside the municipal coat of arms of Glashütte — a shield bearing crossed hammers above a clockface — at upper centre. The main text in blackletter Gothic reads 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfennige', below which a three-line payment order instructs the Stadt-Girokasse Glashütte (Sa.) to reimburse the bearer, charged to account No. 5; a red six-digit serial number appears to the right of this text. At lower left an embossed municipal seal is applied, and below the issuing authority 'Stadtverwaltung Glashütte (Sa.) am 1. August 1921' appears alongside a manuscript signature above the title 'Bürgermeister'. |
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| Protection type | Embossed seal |
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Glashütte, a small Saxon town whose identity was almost entirely defined by its precision watchmaking industry, issued this note during the inflationary spiral of 1921 — before the hyperinflationary catastrophe of 1922–23 made such modest Kleingeldscheine essentially worthless within weeks of printing. Max Rönisch was a Dresden-based printer responsible for a substantial volume of Saxon municipal emergency currency during this period, and the embossed seal was the issuer's primary authentication measure, applied locally after delivery from the press.