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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Annaburg, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Louis Koch, Halberstadt, Germany |
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| Reverse description | White-ground reverse with a decorative border of green and grey geometric stained-glass motifs at the corners and sides, each corner bearing the red numeral '25' in a diamond panel. The central vignette, framed by an arched panel, illustrates a coloured still-life arrangement of Annaburg stoneware products — including a tall Art Nouveau vase, a teapot, a basket, a cup, a jug, and a bowl — with the factory monogram 'A' appearing twice within the vignette. Two lines of Gothic blackletter text above and below the central frame allude to the town's fame through its ceramics industry. |
| Reverse lettering | Durch Steingutsachen allerhand Ward unser Städtlein weltbekannt 25 |
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Annaburg is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency paper currency — Notgeld — to address the chronic shortage of small-denomination coins that had plagued everyday commerce since the war. The Louis Koch firm in Halberstadt was a regional printer regularly contracted by smaller Saxon and Prussian municipalities for exactly this kind of work, producing modest runs that were never intended to outlast the emergency.
The DeNG reference subdivides this issue into at least six variants, suggesting multiple text or color states — worth checking against the specific serial or verso text before cataloging individually.