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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Elze (City of Elze) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Pale grey-blue notgeld issued by the Stadt Elze, with a decorative geometric underprint vignette in tan-gold at centre consisting of interlocking star and lattice motifs. The denomination '25' appears in bold at upper left and upper right flanking the central text block, with the issuer title in Gothic blackletter script and a validity clause and issuance date printed in a smaller serif typeface below. The note is framed by a repeating chain-link border, with two facsimile signatures printed at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 Pfennig Gutschein der Stadt Elze über Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig. Gültig bis zum 15. Oktober 1919. Dieser Gutschein wird von unserer Kämmereikasse und Stadtsparkasse eingelöst. Elze (Hannover), im Juni 1917. Der Magistrat. Die Bürgervorsteher. |
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Elze is a small town in Lower Saxony, and this 1917 25 Pfennig note is a product of the Kleingeldersatz crisis — the acute shortage of small-denomination coinage that gripped Germany as metal was diverted to the war effort. Thousands of German municipalities issued their own Notgeld under similar pressure, but the sheer volume of tiny towns doing so in 1917 makes precise attribution to specific local printers difficult, and the DeNG reference confirms variant distinctions down to paper stock and typeface minutiae.
The 5/6#E15.1b suffix indicates a sub-variant, likely differentiated by ink color or paper shade from E15.1a.