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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Cities of Hildburghausen, Eisfeld, Themar, Römhild, Heldburg, and Ummerstadt |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ground notgeld voucher printed in black and red using Fraktur (blackletter) typography. The obverse carries the issuing municipalities' names alongside the denomination of 25 Pfennig, with red-accented initial capitals on key words and a decorative border framing the text. |
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| Reverse lettering | Dieser Gutschein verfällt, wenn er nicht binnen 3 Monate nach Bekanntmachung eingelöst wird. |
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This is a cooperative notgeld issue — six small Thuringian towns pooling resources to produce a single emergency note series rather than each commissioning their own. That arrangement was unusual even within the notgeld wave of 1917–1921, where municipal issuers typically acted independently. The towns involved — Hildburghausen, Eisfeld, Themar, Römhild, Heldburg, and Ummerstadt — all fell within the former Duchy of Saxe-Hildburghausen's historical territory, which likely made the administrative cooperation easier to organize.
Worth noting for collectors: the multi-issuer attribution creates ambiguity in some catalogs, where the note appears under Hildburghausen alone as the lead municipality.