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25 Pfennig Silhouette Series - Issue B
| Issuer | Apolda (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The city coat of arms of Apolda, rendered in a decorative heraldic vignette with foliate mantling in red and black, occupies the centre of the note, flanked left and right by large red numeral denominational figures "25 Pf.". Two ribbon scrolls bearing validity and redemption clauses in Fraktur script flank the lower portion of the arms. Below, the place and date of issue are printed in Kurrent script, followed by two signature lines with titles in Gothic lettering and a printer imprint at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a black papercut-style silhouette scene in which a top-hatted gentleman gestures expressively towards two elaborately dressed women, one carrying an umbrella and the other a basket, with a small cat at their feet; the letter "B" appears at the upper left of the vignette. Coloured figural vignettes in period costume — a woman in a full skirt to the left and a draped female figure to the right — occupy the lateral panels, with red "25" numerals at each corner. A yellow cartouche at the base carries a two-line German verse in Fraktur script. |
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Apolda's Silhouette Series belongs to the peak years of German municipal notgeld, when small-town issuers competed as much for collector interest as for practical necessity. The "Issue B" designation distinguishes this release from an earlier printing — differences between issues in this series are typically minor typographic or color variations, but enough for the collector market of 1921 to treat them as distinct objects worth acquiring.
Adolf Forker of Leipzig was a mid-tier commercial printer who handled notgeld for multiple Thuringian municipalities during this period. The signatures of Heyne and Walther Fischer represent the city treasurer and a second authorized municipal official, as was standard for Apolda's issues.