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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Raguhn (City of Raguhn) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Raguhn Gültig bis 3 Monate nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung. Zahlstelle: Stadtkasse Raguhn. der Magistrat: Der Stadtverord.-Vorsiteher Ausgegeben im August 1921 DRUCK: J. A SCHWARZ, LINDENBERG-ALLGÄU. |
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| Reverse lettering | Öffentliche Bekanntmachung. Es ist hier ein Gerücht im Schwang, Daß hier im unterird'schen Gang Sich eine Gans zu zeigen pflegt, Die lauter gold'ne Eier legt.- Wer uns, dem Rat, die Gans einfängt, Kriegt dieses ganze Geld geschenkt. Raguhn, den 22. August 1921 Der Magistrat. |
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Raguhn is a small industrial town on the Mulde river in Saxony-Anhalt, and this note is a product of the Kleingeldersatz crisis that gripped Germany in the early Weimar years — the chronic shortage of low-denomination coinage that forced hundreds of municipalities to print their own fractional paper. The Stadtkasse, essentially the city treasury rather than a bank, had direct authority to issue these emergency pieces, and did so through J. A. Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu, a Bavarian printing house that handled notgeld contracts for numerous small issuers simultaneously during this period.
Georg Goldstein's designer credit is worth noting — local notgeld commissions frequently went to regional commercial artists, and the Schwarz firm maintained working relationships with several.