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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Nörenberg (City of Nörenberg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Görlitzer Nachrichten und Anzeiger, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfund Zwanzig Das Notgeld verliert seine Gültigkeit nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung einen Monat Notgeld d. Stadt Nörenberg ANNO 1921 Der Magistrat |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central oval vignette in red and grey, enclosing two putti or cherub figures flanking an overflowing decorative urn or bowl with floral motifs, rendered in a Renaissance-revival engraving style. The oval is surrounded by a pearl-beaded border with radiating lines on a gold and yellow ground, with the denomination numeral '25' repeated in roundels at left and right. The date '1. Januar 1921' appears above the vignette in Gothic script, and the inscription 'Pfennige' is set below; the printer's imprint 'Görlitzer Nachrichten & Anzeiger' appears in the lower margin. |
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Nörenberg — now Ińsko in northwestern Poland — was a small Pomeranian market town with a population well under two thousand when this note was issued. Like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921, it turned to emergency scrip (Notgeld) not because of local financial crisis but because Reichsbank coin had effectively vanished from everyday commerce, hoarded or melted in the inflationary chaos following the war.
The Görlitzer Nachrichten und Anzeiger was a regional newspaper publisher that took on considerable Notgeld printing work during this period — a pragmatic sideline when municipal contracts were plentiful and the equipment was already in house.