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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lobeda (City of Lobeda), Thuringia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Johannes Arndt Druckerei, Jena, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette in olive-green tones presents a detailed letterpress view of Schloss Lobeda (the lower castle), captioned above as 'Untere Landesburg (Schloß Lobeda)' with the notation 'Rotschau' at upper left. Decorative tree motifs in stippled letterpress border the composition on both lateral margins. The lower left carries validity text reading 'Gültig bis drei Monate nach Aufruf, Lobeda 1921' with facsimile signatures of the Gemeinde-Vorstand and Stadtrat, while the denomination '25 Pfennige' appears in a ruled cartouche at lower right; the printer's imprint 'Druck: Johannes Arndt Jena' runs along the bottom edge. |
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| Reverse lettering | Lobedaer Herren waren groß und mächtig in Gunst als Gutsherren hoch in der Gunst, in der Hand der Herren Jena nannten sie ihr eigen 25 Pfennig |
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Lobeda was a small town on the southern outskirts of Jena — absorbed into Jena entirely in 1923, just two years after this note was issued. The Notgeld program it participated in was therefore one of the last acts of Lobeda as an independent municipality. Johannes Arndt's Jena print shop was a regional workhorse for Thuringian Notgeld contracts during the early 1920s inflationary spiral, handling output for multiple small towns simultaneously.
The DeNG reference suffix range .1-4/8 indicates this belongs to a set of four design variants within the same denomination — typical of collectible Notgeld issued as much for the philatelic market as for genuine small-change relief.