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25 Pfennig Schlesische Lutherfestspiele
| Issuer | Breslau (Lower Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and brown letterpress Notgeld on white paper, with the denomination numeral '25' in large dark brown figures flanking a central rectangular vignette of a half-timbered building identified as the Jahrhunderthalle in Breslau, rendered in fine line work against a pink dotted underprint sky. The upper border carries the inscription 'Schlesische Lutherfestspiele' in Gothic script on a green ground, while the lower border bears the issuing and redemption text in Roman capitals. Zigzag ornamental fillets in green and black frame the left and right margins. |
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| Obverse lettering | Schlesische Lutherfestspiele BRESLAU • JAHRHUNDERTHALLE • JUNI 1921 • WERT D. SCHEINES 50 Fr. I. BEREICH D. FESTSPIELE • EINLÖSBAR A. D. KASSE B. Z. 15. JULI 1921. |
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The Schlesische Lutherfestspiele were a series of large-scale theatrical productions staged in Breslau in 1921 to mark the 400th anniversary of Luther's appearance before the Diet of Worms. The city issued this Notgeld specifically to fund or commemorate the festival — a not uncommon practice in early Weimar Germany, where municipalities discovered that collectors would absorb small-denomination emergency notes as souvenirs, effectively generating revenue with paper that never returned for redemption.
Grass, Barth & Comp. (operating under the W. Friedrich imprint) was a Breslau-based printing house with a long local history, which accounts for the unusually tight regional specificity of the design program across the .1 through .5 variants in this series.