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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Landesteil Birkenfeld (District of Birkenfeld) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | A finely rendered forest vignette occupies the centre, showing a stag pausing before a rocky outcrop amid gnarled trees, executed in brown letterpress and signed 'SECHE KÖLN' at lower right. Square decorative denomination panels bearing '25' with corner ornaments are placed at each of the four corners, while narrow vertical side panels carry stylised oak-leaf and acorn motifs. A four-line German verse in italic letterpress runs along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 ICH LEGE MICH BESCHEIDEN NIEDER FERN VOM GERÄUSCH UND LÄRM UND GLANZ DER WELT ICH SUCHE MIR DIE HEIMAT WIEDER DEN HOCHWALD UND MEIN BIRKENFELD. SECHE KÖLN |
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Birkenfeld was a constitutional anomaly — a detached exclave of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg surrounded entirely by Prussian territory, with no land connection to Oldenburg proper. When the notgeld wave hit in 1921, the district issued its own scrip rather than deferring to any neighboring authority, a small bureaucratic assertion of a jurisdiction that had always been geographically awkward.
Two designers are credited across the series variants: Rud. Wild of Idar and Seche of Köln, suggesting different notes within the 0106 group were commissioned separately rather than conceived as a unified set.