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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Stützerbach (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | (left text) Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh, In allen Wipfeln spürst du Kaum einen Hauch. Die Vögel schweigen im Walde Warte nur - balde Ruhest du auch. (center) M. Bechstein Ilmenau GÖTHEHAUS auf d. Kickelhahn (right text) Ein solch Papier, an Gold und Perlen Statt Ist so bequem, man weiß doch was man hat. Göthe, Faust II Teil. NOTGELD, Stützerbach W./A. Wert fünf und zwanzig Pf. Industrie= und Luftkurort. |
| Reverse description | Left vignette of a capercaillie cock in display posture; centre vignette of the Gasthaus zum Auerhahn roadhouse situated east of the village at 716 metres above sea level, with a hunter figure below. Two flanking text panels carry verse and administrative text, the right panel bearing the mayor's manuscript signature and the June 1921 date of issue. |
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Stützerbach is a small glassmaking village in the Thuringian Forest, and its Notgeld issues reflect the hyperinflationary pressures of 1921 when municipalities across Germany printed their own emergency small change to compensate for the total disappearance of metal coinage. Max Bechstein — not the piano family, but a local designer active in Thuringian Notgeld production — contributed to several issues in the region during this period.
The print date of 30 April 1945 appearing in catalog records almost certainly reflects a documentation or typographical error; German municipal Notgeld of this denomination and type had ceased to be valid currency decades before that date.