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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Bad Sooden an der Werra |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | A winter townscape vignette rendered in warm brown and red tones occupies the central field, depicting snow-covered half-timbered houses and a church with a domed clock tower set against a wooded hillside, signed by the artist at lower left. The town arms of Bad Sooden (red shield with crossed salt-rake and key, dated 1552) appear at upper left, while the regional coat of arms bearing a red lion on a blue field is placed at upper right. The lower panel carries a two-line aphorism in black-letter script on a red-orange ground, and the serial number is printed in black below the vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | Man muß in allen Sachen Mit Gott sein Rechnung machen! |
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Bad Sooden an der Werra sits on the Werra river in Hesse, historically known for its saline springs and salt extraction — a local economy that had largely declined by the time this Notgeld was issued. The 1921 date places this squarely in the second wave of German municipal emergency currency, when inflation was accelerating but had not yet reached the catastrophic levels of 1923.
J. Adolf Schwarz in Lindenberg im Allgäu was a prolific small-format Notgeld printer, handling commissions from dozens of municipalities across southern and central Germany during this period. Ernst Metz as named designer is the distinguishing detail here — commissioned artwork rather than a stock layout was common enough in collectible Notgeld, which many municipalities deliberately produced for the philatelic trade as a revenue supplement.