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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Groß-Wirschleben (Municipality of Groß-Wirschleben) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress reverse with geometric lattice side panels carrying the numeral '25' on each flank. The central vignette illustrates a lively folk-dance scene — the 'Groß-Wirschleber Gautanz' — with four figures in traditional regional costume rendered in a woodcut-style design. A header inscription names the dance above the vignette, and the issuer's name 'Groß-Wirschleben in Anhalt' appears in Gothic script along the lower border. |
| Reverse lettering | Groß-Wirschleber Gautanz Groß-Wirschleben in Anhalt 25 |
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Groß-Wirschleben is a village in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of similarly obscure German municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the post-WWI coin shortage rather than wait on central authorities who had neither the metal nor the logistical will to supply small denominations. The 1921 date places this firmly in the second wave of emergency currency, after the acute 1918–1920 shortages had already normalized the practice of local paper filling the gap left by hoarded coinage.
The DeNG reference suggests this is one of four known varieties in the series — subtle differences in serial numbering or overprint likely distinguish them.