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25 Pfennig Silhouette Series - Issue D
| Issuer | Stadt Apolda (City of Apolda, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 93 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Apolda 25 Pf. Dieser Gutschein wird an allen städtischen Kassen in Zahlung genommen Er verliert seine Gültigkeit drei Monate nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung zur Einziehung Apolda, den 1. August 1921. Der Gemeindevorstand Der Gemeinderat Heyne, Bürgermeister-Stellv. Walther Fischer, Vorsitzender. |
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| Reverse lettering | D 25 Sie steigen ein mit Angst und Bangen; Nach Jugend hat auch Schnauz Verlangen. |
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Apolda's Silhouette Series is among the more coherent pieces of Thuringian Notgeld design — the city commissioned Adolf Förker in Leipzig to produce a consistent thematic set rather than the improvised, often chaotic single-issue scrip flooding German municipalities in 1921. The "Issue D" designation places this within a sequenced release program, suggesting the city was managing denominations and print runs deliberately across multiple tranches rather than responding to a single shortage event.
Apolda was a textile and bell-founding town; its Notgeld program ran long enough to require a deputy mayor's countersignature rather than the Bürgermeister's own hand.