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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Eisenberg (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, also printed in brown on a tan ground, carries a large central vignette of a pre-war street scene in Eisenberg dated 1913, showing a flock of sheep and pigs being driven through a broad townscape with a church tower visible at the end of the street. The denomination '25' appears in large numerals at lower left and lower right. Two side panels bear a humorous rhyming verse in German script lamenting the wartime reduction in sausage size, and faint wavy decorative underprint elements appear in the lateral margins. |
| Reverse lettering | Eisenberg 1913 25 25 Die Rostbratwurst sah bessre Zeiten, Wie zog sie einst sich in die Weiten, War vor dem Krieg ein drittel Meter, Doch jetzt - kaum zwanzig Zentimeter Da hab' ich sie nicht mehr gestochen, Ich hab sie immer nur gerochen. |
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Eisenberg's 1921 Pfennig notgeld belongs to the vast wave of small-denomination emergency paper issued by German municipalities when coin shortages made everyday transactions nearly impossible. The postal and transport strikes of 1919–1921 had badly disrupted central coin distribution, pushing hundreds of Thuringian towns to print their own fractional scrip. Eisenberg was one of the smaller issuing authorities in the region — its series attracted collector interest at the time, as much notgeld was deliberately printed for the souvenir trade rather than genuine transactional use.
The print date of 30 April 1945 in the catalog data is almost certainly a modern administrative entry date, not the actual printing of the note.