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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Eisenach (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a bust portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach, with the Eisenach municipal coat of arms below. To the left is a vignette of the Bachhaus (Bach's birthplace) and to the right the Lutherhaus, both rendered in an Art Nouveau illustrative style. The denomination and redemption conditions appear in Gothic lettering across the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | DER TANNHÄUSER Heia! Der Sommer kommt, wer will uns euch verleiden? (Translation: The Tannhäuser Heia! Summer is coming, who will deprive us of your company?) |
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Heinz Schiestl was a Würzburg-based graphic artist and woodcut specialist whose work had a strong medievalist character — an apt choice for Eisenach, a city that trades heavily on its Luther and Wartburg associations. J. Adolf Schwarz in Lindenberg im Allgäu was a specialist notgeld printer during the inflation years, producing handmade paper issues for numerous Thuringian municipalities simultaneously.
The watermark on handmade notgeld of this period is rarely consistent across a full print run — sheet-by-sheet variation in the papermaking process means the mark's clarity differs significantly between individual notes.