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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Blankenstein an der Saale |
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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 carries a central vignette of a village scene set within a decorative frame, flanked on both sides by the numeral denomination. A multi-line poetic inscription runs across the upper portion of the note, and the issuing municipality's name is printed in red across the lower section. |
| Reverse lettering | Hier stießen drei Länder zusammen o brachte ein Wunder geschwind daß wir, die einem entstammen einst auch eines sind - 25 - GEMEINDE BLANKENSTEIN-SAALE |
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Blankenstein an der Saale is a small town in Thuringia, and like thousands of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from everyday commerce. The postwar metal shortage, combined with rampant hoarding, had made pfennig denominations functionally useless in their minted form. Local bodies filled the gap themselves.
Hofkunstanstalt Löffler & Co. of Greiz handled a considerable volume of Thuringian notgeld, and their print quality is generally reliable. The firm operated as a fine-art printing house before the notgeld wave repurposed their facilities for municipal contracts.