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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bad Suderode, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN B 25 Pfg. SOLBAD Sol heißt die Sonne Sole das Salz – Zur Menschheit Wonne Suderode behalt's! Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit 3 Monate nach öffentlichem Aufruf. Bad Suderode Harz, den 13. Mai 1921 Der Gemeindevorstand. LOUIS KOCH – HALBERSTADT. |
| Reverse description | The reverse, rendered in dark brown and black with pale blue highlights, carries a banner scroll inscribed "Calcium-Trinkkuren" across the upper register above a landscape vignette of the Saalsteine rock formation, captioned "Saalsteine" beneath the scene. Diamond-pattern corner ornaments frame the composition, while octagonal panels at lower left and right each bear the denomination numeral "25", and the bold block inscription "BAD SUDERODE HARZ" anchors the lower centre. |
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Bad Suderode was a small spa town in the Harz region, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency small change — Kleingeldscheine — to compensate for the chronic coin shortage that had persisted since the war. Louis Koch in Halberstadt was a regional printer serving dozens of these local issues, which means the technical execution here is competent but entirely unremarkable.
What distinguishes individual Suderode issues within the series is the suffix coding in the reference number — the "4/10" designation indicating a specific note within a set of ten distinct designs issued under the same authority.