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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Wörlitz (Municipality of Wörlitz) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 Pfennig 25 Notgeld der Stadt Wörlitz Der Magistrat. J. v. Fr. Graul. Der Stadtv. Vorst.: Abel. |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of a garden monument within the Wörlitz Park, showing a classical portico structure surmounted by a tall column amid mature trees, with a pathway in the foreground, printed in brown on a light ground. The title 'Notgeld der Stadt Wörlitz' appears in Gothic script across the top, with stylised floral corner ornaments in green at upper left and right. Denomination cartouches of '25 PF' in green appear at lower left and right corners, with the validity inscription centred below the vignette. |
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Wörlitz is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt best known for the Wörlitzer Park, one of the earliest English-style landscape gardens on the European continent, laid out in the late eighteenth century for Prince Leopold III Friedrich Franz of Anhalt-Dessau. The municipality issued this Notgeld series in 1922 during the inflationary spiral that was steadily making Reichsbank coinage worthless and disappearing it from circulation — small-denomination municipal notes filled a genuine transactional gap, not merely a collector one.
The DeNG reference suffix indicating four variants (1-4) suggests the series was issued with different imagery or text across the set, a common approach by German municipalities exploiting collector demand to offset printing costs.