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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Jeßnitz (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 PFENNIG III. Serie. NOTGELD JESSNITZ i/A Gültig bis 1 Mon. n. Abruf. Zahlstelle: Stadtkasse. Der Stadtverordneten-Vorst. Der Magistrat. 1.9.21. Altes Haus a. Markt. Druck von Adolf Forker, Leipzig |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full-width colour lithographic vignette within an arched frame, illustrating a scene from the local legend 'Sage vom Dudeldei', in which figures in Renaissance costume dance and make music in an open landscape, with a sword lying discarded in the foreground. Denomination numerals '25' in red appear at the upper left and upper right corners, flanked by stylised white leaf sprays. The series letter 'I' is printed in red at the lower left and lower right. Below the vignette, a two-line Gothic-script verse in black reads: 'Burg Libehna ging auf im Flammenlichein, / Jeßnitzer Bürgerschaft holte die Sieger ein.' The designer's monogram 'F. L.' is visible in the lower right of the vignette. |
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Jeßnitz is a small town on the Mulde river in Anhalt, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities in 1921, its Magistrat turned to notgeld not out of genuine coin shortage — that crisis had largely passed by then — but because the local issues had become a minor collector phenomenon, generating modest revenue for cash-strapped administrations. Adolf Forker was a Leipzig commercial printer producing runs for dozens of such towns simultaneously, which kept unit costs low.
F. Linde's designer credit is unusual to see named on a piece at this denomination level.