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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wurzbach (Municipality of Wurzbach), Thuringia, Germany |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Gebrüder Parcus, Munich, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-green notgeld on a yellow guilloche underprint enclosed within a dark green ornamental border. The upper legend reads "Gemeinde Wurzbach Thüringen" in Gothic script, with "Gutschein über" flanking a small municipal coat of arms bearing a stork. Two circular guilloche medallions at centre left and right carry the numeral "25", between which a horizontal pale blue band bears the denomination "Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig" in Gothic lettering. The lower portion carries the issue date "Wurzbach, am 1. Juli 1921", a serial number at lower left, and two manuscript signatures above the roles "Bürgermeister" and "Gemeinderats-Vorsitz"; a disclaimer clause regarding the expiry of validity runs along the bottom edge. The printer's imprint "Gebr. Parcus München" appears at the lower right margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Wurzbach Thüringen Gutschein über 25 Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig Wurzbach, am 1. Juli 1921 Bürgermeister: Gemeinderats-Vorsitz Der Zeitpunkt, mit dem die Gültigkeit des Gutscheines abläuft, wird bekanntgegeben. GEBR. PARCUS MÜNCHEN |
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Wurzbach is a small town in the Thuringian Forest, and this note belongs to the vast wave of municipal Notgeld that flooded Germany between 1919 and 1922 as small denominations of official coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply insufficient in volume for a collapsing monetary system. Thousands of German municipalities printed their own emergency pfennig notes during this period; Wurzbach was one of hundreds that contracted Gebrüder Parcus of Munich, who became one of the busiest Notgeld printers in southern Germany precisely because they could handle the sheer volume of small municipal commissions efficiently.
By 1921, much of the collector-oriented "Serienscheine" market was already distorting production — notes were being printed for philatelic sale as much as genuine circulation. Whether Wurzbach's issue was driven by real local need or speculative series-collecting is worth considering.