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25 Pfennig

Issuer Cities of Hildburghausen, Eisfeld, Themar, Römhild, Heldburg, and Ummerstadt
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Value 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25)
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Reverse description Yellow ground printed in black and red Fraktur script, carrying the redemption warning text in three lines across the centre. Below the text, an ornate scrollwork flourish vignette in black ink serves as the sole decorative element, with a plain black ruled border enclosing the entire design.
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.

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