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25 Pfennig G. M. Holz Tabakfabrikate
| Issuer | G. M. Holz Tabakfabrikate, Frankfurt am Main |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld voucher with a geometric guilloche underprint in tan and blue. Central text in blackletter script reads "Gutschein der Firma G.M. Holz Tabakfabrikate" above a horizontal blue band inscribed "Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig". Denomination "25 Pfg." appears in red at all four corners; issuer name repeated in grey letterpress along outer borders. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse carries a vivid expressionist colour vignette in red, black and yellow, depicting figures in a dramatic urban scene consistent with the style of the 1920 silent film "Der Golem". The issuer name "G · M · HOLZ FRANKFURT A · MAIN" and founding year "1849" are repeated in grey letterpress along the side borders within a guilloche frame. |
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Notgeld issued by a private Frankfurt tobacco merchant rather than a municipality or savings bank — uncommon enough to be worth noting. The commercial Notgeld wave of 1921 saw hundreds of German businesses print their own emergency small change, but most were retail shops or cooperatives; a specialist tobacco house issuing its own scrip places this firmly at the eccentric edge of that phenomenon.
The DeNG reference confirms this as a catalogued private issue, not a fantasy piece, though provenance from the issuer itself is rarely traceable for commercial Notgeld of this type.