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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Annaburg, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Grey-toned Notgeld note with a central heraldic shield vignette in colour, bearing a flowering rose tree on a green mound — the arms of Annaburg. A decorative scroll above the shield carries the town name and year in Gothic blackletter. The denomination numeral '25' appears in large red and black letterpress within octagonal panels at left and right. Two framed text cartouches in the upper corners carry the redemption clause in Gothic script, while the issuing authority 'Gemeindevorst' is inscribed in a red-bordered panel at lower right, with the place and date line 'Annaburg. Bez. Halle. August 1921' along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Städtlein Annaburg 1921 Die Gemeinde Annaburg zahlt für mich 3 Monate nach erfolgtem Widerruf ohne Murren den Betrag von 25 Pfennigen 25 Gemeindevorst Annaburg. Bez. Halle. August 1921 Louis Koch - Halberstadt. |
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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.