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25 Pfennig Sights Series - Theater
| Issuer | Stadt Weimar (City of Weimar) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Tan-toned reverse with an orange-red border frame and vertical ornamental strips at each side. A central vignette in brown letterpress renders the neoclassical façade of the old Goethe Theatre (Deutsches Nationaltheater) in Weimar, before which stands the double-figure Goethe-Schiller monument on its plinth. The denomination numeral 25 appears in red at each corner, and two inscriptions in German script are placed above and below the architectural vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 Das alte (Goethe) Theater und Goethe-Schiller-Denkmal. Ernst ist das Leben – heiter ist die Kunst. Schiller. |
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Weimar's 1921 Notgeld issues were among the more self-consciously ambitious of the inflation-era municipal series — the city was acutely aware of its cultural capital during the early Weimar Republic years, when it had been the seat of the constituent assembly and lent its name to the new constitution. The Sights Series was a deliberate civic promotion, printed locally by Reineck & Klein rather than farmed out to one of the large specialist Notgeld printers like Giesecke & Devrient.
25 Pfennig denominations in this series were workhorses of small daily transactions during the coin shortage that drove most German municipalities to issue their own emergency scrip between 1919 and 1922.