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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bad Wörishofen (Municipality of Bad Wörishofen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Blue on white Bavarian lozenge underprint. To the left, an oval vignette encloses a bust portrait of Sebastian Kneipp in clerical dress, surrounded by a laurel and floral wreath with decorative scroll cartouches. To the right, bold Gothic-script lettering reads "Notgeld der Gemeinde Bad Wörishofen" with the commemorative inscription "Hundertjahrfeier Kneipps" and the year 1921. Denomination numerals "25" appear in each corner within ruled boxes, and two rhyming motto lines are inscribed in banners at top and bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | Für diesen papiernen Fetzen Notgeld der Gemeinde BAD WÖRISHOFEN Hundertjahrfeier Kneipps 1921 Kriegst Du noch nicht 'nen Bretzen 25 |
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Bad Wörishofen's 25 Pfennig notgeld of 1921 belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — issued after the Reichsbank's postwar coin shortage had already dragged on for years, with no clear end in sight. By 1921, many municipalities had stopped treating notgeld as a stopgap and were commissioning illustrated series deliberately aimed at collectors, a market that had become commercially significant enough to sustain print runs well beyond local circulation needs.
Designer J. Dillitzer is credited on the series, though little biographical detail has been firmly established for him outside these issues. The DeNG reference 1449.1 indicates this is among the catalogued Bavarian municipal pieces, Bad Wörishofen being notable as the town where Sebastian Kneipp developed his hydrotherapy methods — a fact the municipality leaned on heavily in its identity and, predictably, its notgeld imagery.