25 Pfennig

Roda — now Rodewisch, not to be confused with Roda in Saxony — was one of hundreds of small Thuringian municipalities that turned to local printers during the postwar coin shortage to produce Kleingeldersatz notes. Eduard Giltsch in Jena was a respected lithographic house with a long history of quality commercial printing, which is why several Thuringian towns contracted with them rather than using cheaper offset printers during the 1921 inflationary spiral.

Small-denomination Notgeld from towns this size typically circulated for only a few months before being called in, which paradoxically inflated collector demand almost immediately — many issues were produced with philatelic buyers in mind from the outset.