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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 view of the Lobedaer Kirche (Lobeda church) with its distinctive spire rising against a radiant sunburst sky, framed by bare-branched trees and a stone path in the foreground. Flanking the central scene on both left and right margins are ornamental panels with weeping willow tree motifs in a Jugendstil-influenced style. The lower margin carries the Notgeld inscription in Gothic blackletter script, with validity text and the date 1921 in the lower-left corner, the denomination numeral 25 in the lower-right, and the printer's imprint centered at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black and ochre-yellow on cream paper, the reverse centres on a circular vignette containing a silhouetted view of a medieval castle ruin set against a pale sky, enclosed within a decorative ring of Gothic blackletter text. The four corners each bear the denomination numeral 25 Pfennig in bold type against the ochre ground. The left lateral panel contains a coloured vignette of the Virgin Mary with the Christ child above a kneeling figure and a heraldic lion, while the right lateral panel presents a fully armoured medieval knight holding a red and white shield. |
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Lobeda was still an independent municipality in 1921 — it wasn't absorbed into Jena until 1923. This note belongs to the broader Notgeld wave that swept Thuringia as postwar inflation rendered official small coinage functionally useless, forcing hundreds of German towns to print their own stopgap issues. Johannes Arndt was a Jena printer with a regional client base, and Lobeda was close enough to be a natural customer.
The reference suffix range (1-3/8) suggests this was issued across multiple variants or coupons within the same series — worth distinguishing carefully when cataloguing.