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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Brehna |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Kunstanstalt H. F. Jütte, Leipzig, Germany |
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| Reverse description | Polychrome vignette occupying the majority of the note's face, rendered in a soft watercolour-style lithographic technique and signed 'R. Schiebel 21' at lower centre, showing a panoramic townscape of Brehna viewed across open agricultural fields with a church tower and red-roofed buildings silhouetted against a hatched sky. The vignette is framed by an ornate blue and gold border with scrollwork cartouches at each corner enclosing stylised 'Pf.' denomination markers, with bold '25' numerals in the upper corners. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 25 Pf. Pf. R. Schiebel 21 |
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Brehna was a small town in the Prussian province of Saxony, and its 1921 Notgeld issue is typical of the wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany as small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation entirely. R. Schiebel's design was executed by H. F. Jütte, a Leipzig commercial art printer responsible for a substantial number of Notgeld commissions across central Germany during this period — quality was generally competent but unremarkable.
Brehna was absorbed into Sandersdorf-Brehna municipality decades later, making its independent civic issues a minor footnote in local administrative history.