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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Annaburg, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issue in a landscape format with a grey-green underprint and a decorative ruled border. The central vignette presents the heraldic shield of Annaburg bearing a flowering rose tree on a green mound, framed by a bold shield outline with a banner above inscribed 'Städtlein Annaburg 1921'. Denomination numerals '25' appear in red and black within octagonal cartouches at left and right, while two flanking text panels carry the redemption obligation and the payment clause; a serial number and the manuscript signature of the Gemeindevorstand appear below, with the imprint 'Annaburg Bez. Halle August 1921' along the bottom. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a silhouette vignette in black and grey of a forest scene, with tall deciduous trees in the foreground framing a view across water towards a distant castle silhouette, with conifers in the middle ground; the artist's signature 'J. Beyer' appears at lower right of the vignette. Above and below the central scene, within ruled decorative bands, are two lines of a regional verse in Gothic blackletter script. Denomination numerals '25' in red and black occupy diamond-shaped cartouches at each corner, set against a geometric border with olive-green and grey striped elements. |
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Annaburg is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and this 25 Pfennig note belongs to the vast wave of German municipal Notgeld that flooded circulation between 1920 and 1922, when chronic coin shortages forced even minor authorities to print their own emergency fractional currency. Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional printer who handled Notgeld commissions for numerous small Saxon and Prussian municipalities during this period — workmanlike output, not prestige work.
The designer credit to J. Beyer is unusually specific for a piece of this type. Most small-town Notgeld went uncredited.