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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Schwanebeck (City of Schwanebeck) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown tones on cream paper within an ornate leafy vine border. The denomination is set in large Fraktur script at the top — 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig' — flanked by four stylized eagle vignettes at the corners and centre. The body of the note carries the issuing authority text 'Der Stadt Schwanebeck', the date 'Schwanebeck, d. 1. April 1921', a validity clause in Fraktur, a manuscript countersignature, and a red typeset serial number; the printer's imprint 'Louis Koch · Halberstadt' appears at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is rendered in multicolour letterpress in green, ochre, and red. At centre a heraldic shield bearing the arms of Schwanebeck is flanked by two local architectural vignettes: to the left a half-timbered house captioned 'Auf der Burg', and to the right a medieval tower captioned 'Panneturm', both set against a stippled green foliage ground. The large red numeral '25' crowns the composition at top, and two aphoristic inscriptions in curved Fraktur script appear in the upper left and upper right fields; the town name 'Schwanebeck' is lettered in bold Fraktur along the lower banner. |
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Schwanebeck is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — to fill the void left by hoarded coins during the postwar inflation spiral. The Reichsbank was hemorrhaging metal coinage faster than it could be replaced, and local governments were legally permitted to plug the gap with their own paper.
Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional commercial printer who handled notgeld commissions for numerous small Saxon and Prussian communities during this period — competent work, not fine engraving.