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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Hirschberg (Saale), Thuringia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green on cream paper, the central vignette presents a panoramic landscape view of Hirschberg an der Saale nestled in the Thuringian hills, with the Saale river winding through the valley and rocky heights rising behind the town; a caption above reads 'Eingang der Saale ins Thüringerland' and the town name 'Hirschberg (Saale)' appears below the scene. The denomination '25' is repeated in bold Gothic numerals at the upper left and upper right within geometric guilloche-patterned borders. Poetic verses in Fraktur script flank the central vignette on both sides, and a line of musical notation is printed along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Eingang der Saale ins Thüringerland Hirschberg (Saale) 25 Städtlein mit den kleinen Gassen / von dem Bergschloß treu bewacht / aufgebaut auf Felsterrassen / und umrauscht von Waldesrpacht Gruß den lieben trauten Neste / an dem hellen Saalestrand / Gruß der alten Mitterreste / droben ruhm am Bergesrand! |
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Hirschberg an der Saale is a small Thuringian town, and this 25 Pfennig Notgeld piece is exactly the kind of hyper-local emergency scrip that flooded Germany during the coin shortage of 1921. The printer, C. & C. Frey, was a local firm — not one of the major Leipzig or Berlin houses — which accounts for the modest production quality typical of municipal issues from towns of this size.
The DeNG reference places it firmly within the documented Thuringian series, but surviving examples in collectible condition are rarer than the catalogue density of this period might suggest.