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25 Pfennig Sights Series - Goethehaus
| Issuer | City of Weimar (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 102 × 74 mm |
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| Obverse description | Tan-toned notgeld note with a red double-rule border enclosing four circular silhouette portrait medallions at the corners, identified by script captions as Goethe (upper left), Schiller (upper right), Herder (lower left), and Wieland (lower right). At center, the Weimar civic arms — a rampant lion within an ornate oval wreath — forms the principal vignette, flanked by two columns of poetic verse in cursive script. The denomination title 'Notgeld der Stadt Weimar' appears at top in Gothic script with 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig' in red below, and a serial number with two manuscript signatures and official text appear at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | Goethehaus am Frauenplan. Warum stehen sie davor? Können sie getrost herein, Ist nicht Thüre da und Thor Würden wohl empfangen seyn. Goethe 1828 25 25 25 25 |
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Weimar notgeld from 1921 occupies a specific and well-documented niche in German emergency currency: by that point, the practical need for small-denomination substitutes had largely passed, but municipal issues continued because collectors were buying them in bulk, unfolded, directly from the issuing offices. The "Sights Series" from the City of Weimar is a textbook example of this shift — notgeld produced as a revenue stream and collectible set rather than as functional pocket change.
Reineck & Klein were a local Weimar printing house, which gives this issue an unusual provenance: designed, printed, and issued within the same small city.