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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bad Lauterberg, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Bad Lauterberg im Harz Es grüne die Tanne, Es wachse das Erz, Gott schenke uns allen Ein fröhliches Herz. 25 Pfennig Gutschein Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach Aufruf im Lauterberger Wochen- und Anzeigeblatt Bad Lauterberg i. Harz, 15. Juli 1921 Der Magistrat KARL GIESEKE BAD LAUTERBERG |
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| Reverse lettering | Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig Ritscher Denkmal Wißmann Denkmal Lauterberger Brunnenquelle Treu sei der Arzt der Wahrheit u. Natur INVENIAM VIAM AVT FACIAM 25 Pfennig San.-Rat Dr. Ritscher, der das Bad 1839 gründete, sagte: "Wasser tut's freilich, nur nicht so eilig!" |
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Bad Lauterberg is a spa town in the Harz mountains, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency paper — Notgeld — to compensate for the chronic shortage of small-denomination Reichsbank coinage that plagued Germany through the early inflation years. Karl Gieseke was a local printer, not a specialist banknote firm, which is entirely typical of this wave of municipal issues.
Collector demand for Harz-region Notgeld was high even at the time of issue, and many municipalities printed deliberately inflated runs to sell to collectors rather than circulate. Whether Lauterberg did so is not firmly established.