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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Fürstenwalde (City of Fürstenwalde) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | J. A. Schwarz, Lindenberg im Allgäu |
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| Reverse description | The central field is dominated by a bold silhouette-style vignette rendered in dark blue and white in an Expressionist woodcut manner, showing a mounted knight on a rearing white horse receiving the homage of kneeling townspeople before a fortified gate, with flags and a crowd visible in the background; the date '1373' appears at lower left of the vignette. Vertical side borders on a tan ground carry stylised oak-leaf sprays in red and gold, with the denomination 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig' lettered vertically in Gothic script along each border. A caption beneath the central scene identifies the depicted historical episode as Fürstenwalde's submission to the young Wenceslaus and Emperor Charles IV. |
| Reverse lettering | Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig 1373 Fürstenwalde huldigt dem Sohne des Kaisers, dem jungen Wenzel, und Karl IV. |
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Fürstenwalde's 1921 notgeld issue was one of thousands produced by German municipalities during the post-WWI inflationary period, when coin shortages forced local authorities to print their own small-denomination emergency money. J. A. Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu was a prolific notgeld printer during this window — their output for dozens of small German towns was largely interchangeable in execution, which is worth knowing when assessing whether a given example has any collector premium beyond the issuer name itself.
Fürstenwalde, a town on the Spree east of Berlin, issued these partly for practical use, partly for the growing collector market that had already begun distorting notgeld production by 1921.