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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gräfenroda (Thuringia), Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on a light green underprint and carries a full-width rectangular vignette of a Thuringian forest scene: tall coniferous trees frame the composition at left and right, while in the middle distance a woodsman stands beside a horse-drawn timber wagon against a wooded hillside backdrop. In the foreground, a freshly felled log occupies the lower register, upon which the denomination '25 PFENNIG 25' is boldly overprinted in red. A solid green banner at the top carries the issuer legend 'NOTGELD GRÄFENRODA' in large black capitals. |
| Reverse lettering | NOTGELD GRÄFENRODA 25 PFENNIG 25 |
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Gräfenroda is a small glassblowing town in the Thuringian Forest, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own Kleingeldersatz — emergency small-change scrip — to compensate for the chronic shortage of Reichsbank coin that persisted well after the armistice. The federal government had effectively abandoned responsibility for fractional currency, leaving towns to print their own.
The DeNG reference indicates two varieties within this type, typically distinguished by minor typographic differences or paper stock — a common pattern in municipal Notgeld where print runs were handled by local or regional printers without strict standardization.