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25 Pfennig Leuchtenburg-Wirtschaft
| Issuer | Leuchtenburg-Wirtschaft, Kahla (Thuringia) |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Green and black letterpress Notgeld note with a central oval vignette of Leuchtenburg castle perched on a wooded hilltop, rendered in fine line illustration style against a hatched sky with clouds. The denomination numeral '25' appears in bold at upper left and upper right corners flanking the green underprint border. Below the vignette, the issuer inscription is set in decorative Gothic script, with a handwritten signature of Georg Thage to the right, and a redemption clause in smaller Gothic type along the lower margin; the printer's imprint 'Himmer, Augsburg.' appears at the lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Bold two-color design in green and black with a large central vignette of a witch riding a broomstick in full flight, rendered in a vigorous Expressionist woodcut style against a green ground with stylized dark flames and foliage. The denomination numeral '25' appears in large green figures at upper left and upper right. The lower portion carries the text 'Walpurgisnacht' in bold Gothic display lettering, with the date '30. April' flanked by small skull ornaments, and an artist's monogram at the lower right. |
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Leuchtenburg-Wirtschaft was the catering and tourism concession operating at Leuchtenburg castle above Kahla — one of the better-preserved hilltop fortresses in Thuringia — and this 25 Pfennig note is a piece of emergency small change issued by a hospitality business rather than any banking or municipal authority. During the acute coin shortage of the early Weimar inflation period, it was entirely legal for private commercial operators to issue such Notgeld, and many did exactly that.
J. P. Himmer in Augsburg was a prolific printer of regional Notgeld issues across southern and central Germany. Georg Thage's signature identifies the responsible signatory for the concession at the time of issue.