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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Plaue (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows the historic coat of arms of the city of Plaue (dated 1668), comprising a crowned black shield bearing a golden lion rampant, surmounted by elaborate acanthus mantling in gold and black with an angel figure at the crest; the date 1668 appears flanking the shield. Two full-length knight vignettes occupy vertical panels at left and right — a fully armoured medieval knight at left and a pike-bearing soldier at right. The denomination 25 Pfennige appears in red in each of the four corners, with the designer's signature 'gez. M. Bechstein Ilmenau' inscribed below the central vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Plaue-Thür. Wappen der Uhr. Alten Stadt ~ Blauve. 1668. gez. M. Bechstein Ilmenau Die Gültigkeit dieses Scheines erlischt einen Monat nach Aufruf. 30.10.1921 (signature) Bürgermeister. |
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Plaue is a small town on the Gera river, absorbed into Brand-Erbach in 1994, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities it issued Notgeld during the inflationary chaos of the early Weimar years. This 25 Pfennig note was designed by Max Bechstein of Ilmenau, a local commercial artist whose name appears on several Thuringian Notgeld issues from this period — regional printers routinely engaged nearby illustrators rather than commissioning the larger Leipzig or Berlin houses.
The printed date of 30 April 1945 on a 1921 Notgeld issue almost certainly reflects a reprint date recorded in a later catalog or auction house notation — not the original date of issue, which predates that by roughly two decades.