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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Triebes (Reuss) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 59.6 × 40.2 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green guilloche underprint covers the entire field, bordered by a decorative frame with stylized floral and architectural vignettes at each corner in purple and black. The central text in Gothic blackletter script reads 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig', with the heading 'GUTSCHEIN der Stadtgemeinde Triebes/Reuss über' above. Denomination numerals '25' appear in circular cartouches at lower left and right, with validity text 'Nur gültig im Stadtbezirk Triebes' at lower left and the date and Bürgermeister signature at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | A woodcut-style vignette in dark brown ink occupies the central field, illustrating two agricultural workers with a horse-drawn implement in a rural scene, evoking the region's farming and light industrial character. Denomination numerals '25' are set in circular purple cartouches at all four corners, matching the decorative border of stylized floral motifs on a green hatched underprint. The inscription 'Landwirtschaft und landwirtschaftliche Maschinen-Fabriken' appears at top and bottom, with the printer's imprint 'Künstlerpresse, Dresden-A.' at the lower margin. |
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Triebes was a small industrial town in the Reuss principality, absorbed into Thuringia in 1920 — the same year this note was issued. The timing matters: the postwar currency shortage that drove municipalities to print their own Notgeld was already subsiding by mid-1920, making late issues like this one shorter-lived in circulation than the flood of 1919 pieces.
Künstlerpresse Dresden produced some of the more carefully executed small-town Notgeld of the period. At under 60mm wide, there wasn't much room to work with.