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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Zörbig (City of Zörbig) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Kunstanstalt H. F. Jütte, Leipzig, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour letterpress print in red, blue, and black on an orange-brown ground, with a blue border frame enclosing the central design. The municipal coat of arms of Zörbig is centred on the face, flanked by the denomination and issuing authority inscriptions in black letterpress type. Redemption and printer details appear in smaller text along the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries the full text of the redemption notice and issuing authority details in black letterpress type on the orange-brown ground, repeating the denomination, validity date, and printer's imprint without a pictorial vignette. |
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Zörbig is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency paper currency — Notgeld — to compensate for the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage that followed the First World War. The Reichsbank simply could not keep up with demand for pfennig-value coin, and local governments, businesses, and institutions stepped in to fill the gap, often commissioning decorative designs that doubled as collectibles.
H. F. Jütte of Leipzig was a prolific Notgeld printer, and the designer credit to H. Schiebel of nearby Bitterfeld is an unusual locality detail — most issues used house artists.