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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Eckartsberga (City of Eckartsberga) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Circular Notgeld note printed in black on a tan ground. The central vignette comprises a large bold numeral '25' rendered in a decorative shadow typeface within a double-ring border, with the denomination word 'Pfennig' set below in Gothic script. Oak-leaf sprays flank the inner circle at left and right, and the outer band carries the issuer legend in Gothic letterpress. A ribbon cartouche at the lower centre bears the validity clause and issue date, with the printer's imprint 'Reineck & Klein, Weimar' at the very foot. |
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| Reverse description | Circular reverse printed in black on a matching tan ground, with a broad decorative wreath border of stylised leaves encircling a plain central field. The field carries a five-line quotation in Gothic script, attributed below to Friedrich Wilhelm III, flanked above and below by small concentric-circle ornaments. |
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Eckartsberga is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and its 1921 notgeld issue is entirely typical of the municipal emergency currency flood that swept Germany as the central government lost control of small-denomination coinage. Reineck & Klein, based in Weimar, handled a large volume of provincial notgeld commissions during this period — the firm's output was workmanlike rather than artistic, aimed squarely at functionality over the collector-oriented "souvenir notgeld" that many larger towns were producing simultaneously.
The Weimar connection is geographic coincidence, not political symbolism.