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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Brehna (City of Brehna) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Blue and yellow Notgeld note with a decorative border enclosing the central vignette of the arms of the Grafschaft Brehna — a quartered shield with diagonal black-and-gold stripes and red initials — framed by a teal rectangular panel inscribed 'Grafschaft Brene'. The denomination '25 Pfennig' appears in large yellow Gothic numerals at left and right, flanked by stylised wheat-ear ornaments, with the issuing authority 'Notgeld der Stadt Brehna' in Gothic lettering across the top header. Vertical marginal text runs along both side borders, and the imprint of the magistrate and printer 'Kunstanstalt H. F. Jütte, Leipzig' appears at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Brehna 25 Pfenig Grafschaft Brene umfasste: 11. Brettin Brehna, Jul. 21 D. Magistrat Aufkündigung eingelöst Dieses Gutschein wird dem Stadtkas... Brehna bis Monat nach Gott. |
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Brehna is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt — population under 5,000 even in the early twentieth century — and its 1921 notgeld issue is exactly the kind of hyperinflation-era municipal scrip that proliferated across hundreds of German communities when the Reichsbank could not keep small-denomination coinage in circulation. H. F. Jütte of Leipzig was a commercial printer who handled notgeld contracts for numerous provincial towns during this period, which accounts for the competent but unremarkable production quality typical of the firm's municipal work.
Brehna was absorbed into the town of Sandersdorf-Brehna in 2010, so the issuing authority no longer exists as a legal entity.