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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Darlingerode |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Darlingeröder Notgeld 25 Holz Granit Dieser Schein wird jederzeit von der Gemeindekasse bis 1 Nov. 1923 eingelöst Darlingerode am Harz, den 1. Oktober 1921 Der Ortsvorsteher |
| Reverse description | Multicolour vignette printed in black, red, green, and ochre, enclosed within a diamond-pattern decorative border. The central panel presents a panoramic landscape view of Darlingerode am Harz, with a row of red-roofed village houses set against a broad green hillside and a pale sky. The flanking vertical columns carry stylised foliate ornamental panels in ochre and green tones, each surmounted by a circular red underprint disc bearing the denomination numeral '25' with the abbreviation 'Pfg.' below in Gothic script. The place name 'Darlingerode a. H.' is inscribed in bold Gothic lettering across the top centre. |
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Darlingerode is a small village in the Harz district, and its municipal notgeld issue of 1921 falls squarely within the second wave of German small-change emergency money — driven not by wartime disruption but by the chronic coin shortage and inflationary pressure of the early Weimar years. Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional jobbing printer who supplied notgeld to numerous Harz-area municipalities during this period, working quickly and cheaply to meet demand from dozens of small issuers simultaneously.
The Grabowski reference Gra#258.1-1/3 suggests at least three distinct varieties within this denomination, likely differentiated by serial number style or minor typographic variation.