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25 Pfennig

Issuer Stadt Raguhn (City of Raguhn)
Year 1921
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Designer(s) Georg Goldstein
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Obverse description The central field is occupied by a scroll-cartouche vignette combining the civic arms of Raguhn — a black bear passant above a brick gateway tower — with a panoramic riverside townscape rendered in a bold coloured woodcut manner. The denomination numeral '25' appears in circular cartouches at left and right within a dark decorative border, with floral arabesque ornaments at each corner. The lower margin carries manuscript signatures, a handwritten serial number, and the issue date 'im August 1921', with the payment office and validity clause set in Gothic blackletter script.
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Reverse description The central vignette presents a young woman in medieval dress seated outdoors among trees, playing a lute, executed in a bold coloured woodcut style consistent with the Heimat-Kunstnotgeld aesthetic. Diamond-shaped cartouches at left and right each bear the denomination '25 Pf.', framed by stylised vertical ornamental borders. A four-line humorous verse in Gothic blackletter script is distributed across the upper and lower borders, alluding in rhyme to the emergency nature of the issue.
Reverse lettering Was frag' ich viel nach Geld und Gut,
Ich laß die Sorgen ruhn,
Und wenn das Geld mir mangeln tut,
Druckt neues mir Raguhn.
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