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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Tennstedt (City of Bad Tennstedt) |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#1314.1-2/4 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is enclosed within a bold decorative border with stylised foliate corner motifs in red and black. A ribbon banner at the top bears the inscription "SCHWEFELBAD TENNSTEDT i/Th." in Roman capitals. The central vignette presents a line-drawn view of a historic town gate with an arched passageway, ivy-covered walls, and a glimpse of the street beyond. Large red and black numeral "25" denominators with the abbreviation "Pfg" appear on both left and right flanks. Below the vignette, a four-line quotation in Gothic script attributed to "v. Goethe" reads: "Nichts Edlers gab uns Mutter Erde / Als dieser Quellekraft / Nicht gleicht ihr Gold an wahrem innern Werte / Ihr, die Gesundheit schafft." |
| Reverse lettering | SCHWEFELBAD TENNSTEDT i/Th. 25 Pfg Nichts Edlers gab uns Mutter Erde / Als dieser Quellekraft / Nicht gleicht ihr Gold an wahrem innern Werte / Ihr, die Gesundheit schafft - v. Goethe |
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Bad Tennstedt is a small spa town in Thuringia, and like hundreds of German municipalities it turned to emergency paper money — Notgeld — when the Reich's wartime coinage disappeared from circulation. Gerhard Stalling in Oldenburg was one of the more prolific Notgeld printers of the period, producing issues for municipalities across northern and central Germany on tight schedules with limited artistic ambition.
The DeNG reference grouping suggests at least two distinct design variants exist within this issue, a common feature of Stalling-printed Notgeld where successive print runs sometimes received minor typographic or color adjustments without formal reissue documentation.