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25 Pfennig Industry Series
| Issuer | Stadt Pößneck (City of Pößneck, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 100 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into two vertical panels. The left panel, printed in ochre-yellow, carries a repeating diagonal text underprint reading 'SEGEN-BRINGT-SICH-REGEN' and bears the city arms of Pößneck at lower centre — a crowned mural coronet above a shield charged with a rampant black bear, flanked by oak-leaf sprays — with the printer's imprint 'Kühlborn · Pößneck' below; the panel is headed by the Gothic-script inscription 'Notgeld der Stadt Pößneck'. The right panel, in pale blue-green with a fine horizontal-line guilloche ground, centres a lozenge-shaped vignette enclosing the bold denomination numeral '25' over the abbreviation 'Pf' in black letterpress. At lower right the note carries two manuscript facsimile signatures above the legend 'Magistrat und Gemeinderat:', and the denomination '25' appears in each corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Pößneck SEGEN-BRINGT-SICH-REGEN 25 Pf Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Bekanntmachung. Magistrat und Gemeinderat: Kühlborn · Pößneck |
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Pößneck's Industry Series notgeld was issued during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany through 1921, as hyperinflation had not yet peaked but small-denomination metal coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. The city commissioned local printer Kühlborn rather than one of the major Leipzig or Berlin houses — a practical decision given demand for notgeld printing was overwhelming larger firms at the time.
A print run of over twelve million for a single 25 Pfennig note from a small Thuringian town is a striking figure. Pößneck was a significant center for leather goods and shoe manufacturing, and local industrial output gave the city both the economic rationale and the administrative capacity to issue in such volume.