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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Jeßnitz (City of Jeßnitz) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | C.G. Naumann G.m.b.H., Leipzig |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld Jeßnitz Zweite Serie II Gültig bis 1 Monat nach Abruf. Der Magistrat. Zahlstelle: Kämmereikasse der Stadtverordneten-Vorst 25 1921 |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central vignette of a mounted officer on a white horse raising a pistol aloft, set against an open landscape with cavalry in the background and a building to the upper left — a scene referencing Blücher's departure from Jeßnitz in 1813 on the march to the Battle of Leipzig. A portrait medallion of a uniformed military figure occupies the upper right corner, framed by decorative rope and wheat-ear borders. A banner inscription across the top identifies the historical event, with a ribbon motto along the lower edge and the printer's imprint at the foot. |
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Jeßnitz is a small industrial town in Anhalt, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it resorted to issuing its own emergency paper — Notgeld — as chronic small-coin shortages made everyday commerce nearly impossible. The postwar inflation had driven metal coinage out of circulation almost entirely, hoarded or melted down long before the hyperinflation peak of 1923.
C.G. Naumann of Leipzig was one of the more prolific Notgeld printers of the period, handling municipal contracts across Saxony and Anhalt. Their output was competent but high-volume.