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25 Pfennig

Issuer Municipality of Wörlitz
Year 1922
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Value 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25)
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Reverse description Multicolour letterpress reverse with a red outer border and green inner frame with stylised lotus flower corner ornaments. The central vignette presents a neoclassical columned portico — the Wörlitz Pantheon or a garden pavilion of the Wörlitzer Park — rendered in detailed brown line work with flanking garden urns and foliage. Denomination panels '25 Pf' appear in green-framed squares at each lower corner, and a three-line redemption clause is printed in Fraktur script at the foot.
Reverse lettering Notgeld der Stadt Wörlitz
25 Pf
25 Pf
Gutschein unter Gewähr der Stadt Wörlitz, gültig bis 1.7.22.
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Wörlitz is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, best known for its UNESCO-listed Enlightenment garden complex — an incongruous setting for emergency paper money. This note belongs to the vast wave of municipal Kleingeldscheine issued across Germany in 1921–1922 as coin shortages, driven by postwar inflation and metal hoarding, forced even minor local authorities to print their own fractional currency.

The DeNG reference indicates multiple variants within this denomination, likely distinguished by serial number ranges, paper stock, or minor typographic differences — collectors frequently encounter all three without realizing they are separate catalog entries.

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