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25 Pfennig Sights Series - City View
| Issuer | City of Weimar (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Reineck & Klein, Weimar, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Buff-toned notgeld note with a red-orange double-rule border frame. Four silhouette portrait medallions occupy the corners, identified by name captions as Goethe (upper left), Schiller (upper right), Herder (lower left), and Wieland (lower right). At centre, the Weimar municipal lion rampant appears within an oval wreath vignette. The denomination title and issuer legend are printed at the top in script lettering, with the denomination line in red; flanking verse quotations attributed to Goethe and Herder appear in italic script left and right of the central vignette. At the foot, validity text, two manuscript signatures with printed role designations, and a printed serial number appear above the printer's imprint. |
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| Reverse lettering | Weimar in alter Zeit. 25 25 25 25 Glücklich Weimar! Von den Städten allen Bist du, kleine, wunderbar bedacht. Eckermann |
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Weimar notgeld from 1921 occupies a peculiar place in German monetary history — by the time most of it was printed, the immediate post-WWI coin shortage that justified emergency municipal currency had largely passed. The "Sights Series" and dozens like it were produced in direct response to collector demand, a phenomenon the Reichsbank tolerated uneasily. Reineck & Klein, a local Weimar printer, handled production in-house, which kept the civic identity intact but contributed to the wildly uneven print quality collectors encounter across surviving examples.
Weimar's cultural associations made its notgeld commercially attractive well beyond Thuringia.