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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Stützerbach (Municipality of Stützerbach, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Adolf Forker, Leipzig, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Dark-toned note with the denomination '25 Pfg.' in large decorative script at left and right. A central circular vignette on a gold ground displays a rooster perched atop a pedestal flanked by laurel branches, with the inscription 'Ausgegeben Weihnachten 1921' around the inner ring. A six-pointed star appears below the pedestal, and the issuer legend runs along the top margin, with a validity notice and facsimile signature of the Gemeindevorsteher (municipal chairman) along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Glas- schleifer bei der Arbeit FÜNFUNDZWANZIG · PFENNIGE GUTSCHEIN · DER · GEMEINDE · STÜTZERBACH · P.A.I.THÜR. Druck von Adolf Forker, Leipzig (Translation: Glass grinder at work / Twenty-five Pfennige / Voucher of the Municipality of Stützerbach P.A. in Thuringia / Printed by Adolf Forker, Leipzig) |
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Stützerbach is a small glassmaking village in the Thuringian Forest, best known — to the extent it is known at all — as a place Goethe occasionally visited. Its 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency currency produced across Germany when postwar coin shortages made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. Adolf Forker in Leipzig printed for dozens of such municipal clients during this period, and the production quality across the series is generally consistent.
The reference number suggests this is one of at least six design variants within the issue — typical of Thuringian Notgeld, where series completion drove as much demand as actual commerce.