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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Güsten (City of Güsten) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 Pf. Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung. Güsten, den 1. August 1921. Der Magistrat: |
| Reverse description | The upper two-thirds of the reverse is occupied by a large horizontal topographic vignette in dark ink on a cream ground, presenting a street scene of Güsten with trees, period buildings, and a twin-towered church visible in the background, signed 'H. Engel' in the plate. Below the vignette, the denomination numeral '25' appears in large bold type at both lower corners, flanking a central cartouche with a row of ornamental 'M' devices above the inscription 'Stadt Güsten / Anh. / Aus der Neuen Strasse' in Gothic script. The printer's imprint 'Druck von Th. Puchel Güsten' is at the lower left, and 'H.K. ENGEL' at the lower right, all within a pink ruled border with stylised foliate corner ornaments in pink and gold. |
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Güsten is a small industrial town in Saxony-Anhalt, and this note is among hundreds of municipal Notgeld issues that flooded Germany in 1921 as the Reichsbank struggled to keep small-denomination coinage in circulation. What distinguishes it slightly is the local press: Th. Puchel was a Güsten printer, meaning design, production, and issue all happened within the same small town — an unusual degree of self-containment even for the Notgeld period.
Designer H.K. Engel is otherwise unattested in the major Notgeld literature, likely a local commercial artist rather than a specialist brought in from outside.