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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Eckartsberga |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Circular Notgeld note printed in black on buff-toned paper. The centre field carries a bold typographic denomination numeral '25' in a stylised Fraktur-influenced display face within a double-ring border, with the word 'Pfennig' set beneath in italic script. A wreath of oak branches frames the inner circle, while the outer band bears the circular legend 'Notgeld der Stadt Eckartsberga' in Gothic blackletter. A scroll ribbon at the base carries a validity clause and the issuing date, with the printer's imprint 'Reineck & Klein, Weimar' at the very foot. |
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| Reverse description | Circular reverse printed in black on the same buff ground, with a broad decorative border of stylised laurel or bay leaves forming a wreath around the circumference. The central field is occupied entirely by a patriotic verse in Fraktur script attributed to the poet Schenkendorf, set in justified lines and concluding with the attribution 'Schenkendorf' centred at the foot of the text block. |
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Eckartsberga is a small town in Thuringia, and its 1921 Notgeld issue is exactly what you'd expect from a municipality of that scale — a minor local emergency note filling the coin shortage that plagued postwar Germany before the hyperinflation spiral took hold entirely. Reineck & Klein in Weimar handled an enormous volume of Thuringian Notgeld work during this period, and their printing for small-town issuers was generally competent but unremarkable.
The Magistrat series from towns this size rarely ran to high quantities, and survival rates are uneven — many were redeemed promptly once Reichsbank small denominations resumed normal supply.