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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Leopoldshall (City of Leopoldshall), Anhalt, Germany |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Mit Menschen- u. Maschinenkraft wird köstlich Gut zu Tag geschafft, was man aus dunklen Felsen brach, bringt reiche Ernte am lichten Tag. Ohne Kalidüngung Volldüngung einschl. Kali Leopoldshall, d. 25 Juli 1921 Der Magistrat: Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit 3 Monate nach öffentlicher Aufkündigung. LOUIS KOCH HALBERSTADT |
| Reverse description | Printed in the same reddish-brown tone, the reverse is dominated by a large central vignette of an industrial machine hall interior, captioned "Dampf-Fördermaschine" (steam winding engine), with workers tending heavy equipment in a high-ceilinged factory space. The denomination "25 Pfg." appears in bold numerals at lower left and lower right, flanked by vertical borders ornamented with repeated crossed-hammer mining symbols interspersed with wheat ears. A banner at the top reads "Gutschein der Stadt Leopoldshall i. Anh." and a lower banner carries the legend "Kali- und Steinsalzgewinnung" (potash and rock salt extraction), thematically linking the note to the region's mining industry. |
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Leopoldshall was a small industrial town in Anhalt whose economy revolved almost entirely around the potash mining operations that had expanded there since the late nineteenth century. In 1921 the national coinage shortage — driven by hoarding and metal scarcity in the wake of the war — pushed hundreds of German municipalities into issuing their own small-denomination Notgeld, and Leopoldshall was no exception. Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional printer who handled several such municipal issues across the area.
The town was absorbed into neighboring Staßfurt in 1922, which means this note was issued by an administrative entity that effectively ceased to exist within a year of printing.