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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Annaburg, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents the town arms of Annaburg — a heraldic shield charged with a rose tree bearing red blooms on a green mound — surmounted by a scroll banner inscribed with the town name and year in blackletter script. Flanking the shield are two octagonal panels at left and right, each carrying the red and black denomination numeral '25' in bold letterpress. Two text cartouches in red-bordered frames occupy the upper corners, bearing the redemption pledge in Gothic script, while a serial number, a decorative asterisk, the issuing authority's handwritten signature under the legend 'Gemeindevorst', and the place-date line appear along the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central vignette rendered in a coloured lithographic style, presenting a view of Annaburg Castle — a multi-storey Renaissance-style manor with red-tiled gabled roofs — set behind a low wall with mature trees in the foreground; the artist's signature 'Johannes Beyer' appears in the lower right corner of the vignette. Above and below the central scene, bold blackletter inscriptions run across full-width panels. Diamond-shaped corner cartouches, each bearing the red and black denomination numeral '25', punctuate all four corners within a decorative geometric border. |
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Annaburg is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and this note is a product of the German Kleingeldscheine wave of 1921 — when chronic coin shortages forced thousands of municipalities to print their own low-denomination emergency currency. Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional commercial printer who handled a significant number of these municipal commissions, none of them especially distinguished technically.
Designer Johannes Beyer's involvement is the only notable production detail here. Local Notgeld frequently went unsigned and artistically anonymous; credited designers, even minor ones, are less common at this denomination and from a town this size.