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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Zörbig |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 30 September 1921 |
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| Obverse description | Tan and green Notgeld note with a decorative woodgrain-style underprint covering the entire field. At centre, an octagonal vignette on a green guilloche ground presents the city arms of Zörbig — a vertically divided shield in blue and white — supported by a winged angelic figure with outstretched wings. Denomination panels reading '25 PFENNIG' in bold black type are set at lower left and lower right within red-bordered cartouches. The heading 'Notgeld der Stadt' is rendered in large green Gothic (Fraktur) script across the top, with 'Zörbig' and 'der Magistrat' in cursive script at the foot alongside a manuscript signature. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt EINLÖSBAR BEI DER STADT SPARKASSE ZÖRBIG BIS 30. SEPT. 25 PFENNIG Zörbig der Magistrat. H. SCHIEBEL - BITTERFELD Kunstanstalt H. F. Jütte, Leipzig. |
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Zörbig is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921, it was forced to issue its own emergency fractional currency — Kleingeldschein — because the Reichsbank simply could not keep low-denomination coin in circulation fast enough to meet postwar demand. The split production credit between Kunstanstalt H. F. Jütte in Leipzig and H. Schiebel in Bitterfeld is unusual; Jütte handled the artistic printing work while Schiebel, a local Bitterfeld firm, likely managed finishing or overprinting.
Jütte was a prolific supplier to municipal Notgeld issuers across central Germany during this period and brought genuine craft press standards to what was, functionally, disposable scrip.