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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Eisenach (City of Eisenach, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a bust portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach, with the Eisenach municipal coat of arms positioned below. To the left appears a vignette of the Bachhaus (Bach's birthplace) and to the right a vignette of the Lutherhaus, both rendered in a woodcut-style artistic manner consistent with the Schiestl design tradition. The denomination and redemption conditions are stated in full within the surrounding letterpress text. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of Wolfram von Eschenbach, the medieval poet, rendered in a stylised historicising manner. The design references his composition of the Arthurian epic Parzival at the Wartburg, with accompanying text in archaic German blackletter script lending the note a distinctly medieval aesthetic. |
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Eisenach's 1922 notgeld series was designed by Heinz Schiestl, a Würzburg-based artist known primarily for woodcut illustration and ecclesiastical graphic work — an unusual choice for municipal emergency currency, and one that gave this series a distinctly craft-oriented character compared to the lithographed notgeld flooding out of most German towns at the time. The handmade paper substrate is not decorative affectation; it reflects genuine material constraints during a period when industrial paper supplies were erratic and expensive.
Printed by J. Adolf Schwarz in Lindenberg im Allgäu, a small Bavarian press with a documented specialty in high-quality notgeld production during the inflation years.