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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Eisfeld (City of Eisfeld, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a colour view of the Eisfeld market square with a decorative fountain in the foreground and multi-storey townhouses flanking a church tower in the background, signed 'H. Blechschmidt' at lower right. Two figures in traditional Thuringian working attire — a stooped peddler at left and a labourer with tools at right — flank the central scene within a dark ornamental border with red cross motifs. Denomination panels reading '25 Pfennig' appear at lower left and right, below a four-line folk verse in German Gothic script. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Eisfeld 25 Pfennig Ein jeder treibt gern Schnick und d Schnack Mit unserm lieben „Sammelsack, Doch wo käm Eisfeld's Wohlstand her, Wenn Sammelsack'scher fleiß nicht wär? |
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Eisfeld is a small Thuringian town on the upper Werra, and its 1921 emergency issue belongs to the vast wave of Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitutes — that flooded Germany as coin metal vanished from circulation and the Reichsbank struggled to keep pace with denominations under a Mark. Hundreds of municipalities commissioned private printers for exactly this purpose, and Scharfes Druckereien in Wetzlar supplied a number of them.
The DeNG reference 323.1-1/3 indicates three distinct varieties within the series — likely sequential issue dates or minor typographic differences rather than design changes.