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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Jeßnitz, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a vivid colour lithograph vignette set within an arched frame flanked by stylised white floral sprays, illustrating a scene from the local legend 'Sage vom Dudeldei': four figures in Renaissance costume dance and play instruments on an open meadow, with a wooded landscape in the background and the artist's monogram 'F.L.' at lower right. The denomination numeral '25' appears in large red figures at the upper left and upper right corners, while the series numerals 'II' appear in red at the lower left and lower right. A Gothic-script couplet runs across the lower margin within a decorative band. |
| Reverse lettering | Sage vom Dudeldei. 25 25 II II Auf der Wiese drehten im Tanz sich herum Die Landler und Schönen zur Geige, Dideldum. |
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Jeßnitz is a small town on the Mulde river in Anhalt, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — to compensate for the chronic shortage of low-denomination coinage that persisted well after the First World War. The Reichsbank couldn't keep up with coin production, and local authorities were legally permitted to fill the gap themselves.
Adolf Forker of Leipzig was a minor commercial printer who handled notgeld commissions for several Anhalt and Saxony municipalities during this period. Designer F. Linde is otherwise unattributed in the standard references.