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25 Pfennig Braunschweigische Staatsbank
| Issuer | Braunschweigische Staatsbank |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Designer(s) | Günther Clausen |
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| Reverse description | A full-length illustrative vignette by designer Günther Clausen portrays Till Eulenspiegel in his role as baker, seated in a chair and holding aloft a dough figure, surrounded by an array of owl and toad pastry forms rendered in a bold, expressionist woodcut style. The denomination '25 g' appears in the upper right corner, while a verse in Low German dialect is set in two text blocks to the left and lower centre. The designer's name 'GÜNTHER CLAUSEN' is inscribed in a banner at the lower margin. |
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| Protection description | No watermarks |
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The Braunschweigische Staatsbank was one of the smaller regional issuing institutions still operating during the Weimar-era small-change crisis of 1921, when a nationwide coin shortage — driven by metal hoarding and postwar inflation — forced local banks, municipalities, and even private businesses to flood the economy with low-denomination Kleingeldscheine. This 25 Pfennig note was a direct product of that emergency.
Günther Clausen, a Brunswick-based graphic artist, handled design work for several of the Staatsbank's Kleingeldscheine issues. The watermarked paper was an unusual security measure for notes of this denomination and brief intended lifespan — most comparable issues from the period skipped it entirely.