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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lehrte (City of Lehrte) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on white paper with a light blue tint. The heading "GUTSCHEIN FÜR" in bold letterpress appears at the top, with a central ornate cartouche bearing the spelled-out denomination "FÜNFONDZWANZIG PFENNIG" in capital letters over a lightly printed numeral underprint. Below the cartouche, the redemption disclaimer text is repeated, and a black typeset serial number is printed in the lower centre. The lower corners carry small vignettes — a railway scene at lower left and an industrial building at lower right — within octagonal frames, mirroring the "25 Pf" cartouches at the upper corners. |
| Reverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN FÜR FÜNFONDZWANZIG PFENNIG Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung eingelöst wird. No. |
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Lehrte's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of municipal small-change scrip that flooded German commerce after the Reichsbank's coin supply collapsed under wartime metal requisitions and postwar hoarding. By 1921 the practice was so widespread that many towns — Lehrte among them — were producing notes more as collectible curiosities than functional currency, a fact the issuers knew and quietly exploited to generate revenue from philatelists and collectors rather than from actual circulation float.
The Gra:L30.1c designation suggests this is a specific color or paper variant within the Lehrte 25 Pfennig type — Grabowski's Notgeld catalogs typically suffix letter variants to distinguish printing runs that differ in ink or stock rather than design.