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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Weißwasser (Municipality of Weißwasser, Upper Lusatia) |
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| Size | 81 x 48 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Weißwasser (Ober-Lausitz.) Gutschein über fünfundzwanzig Pfennig 25 Nr. Der Gemeindevorstand. Erste Ausgabe. (Translation: Municipality Weißwasser (Upper Lusatia) Voucher for twenty-five pfennigs 25 No. The municipal board. First edition.) |
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| Reverse lettering | Nur gültig für den Geldverkehr innerhalb der Gemeinde bis zum 31. Dezember 1918. Die Einlösung erfolgt nur bei der Gemeindehauptkasse. Scheine ohne Nummern werden nicht eingelöst. (Translation: Valid only for money transactions within the municipality until December 31, 1918. Redemption is carried out only at the main municipal treasury. Notes without a number will not be redeemed.) |
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Weißwasser is a glassmaking town in Upper Lusatia, and its notgeld issues from the early 1920s inflation period reflect exactly that — a municipality printing emergency fractional currency because Reichsbank coins had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted as the mark collapsed. Gemeinde-issued pfennig notes of this size were typically lithographed locally or by small regional printers, rarely documented with full printer attribution.
At 25 Pfennig, this sits at the most commonly issued denomination in the Kleingeldscheine wave of 1920–1921 — useful for everyday transactions when no change existed.