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25 Pfennig Spa Series - Issue B
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Bad Sulza (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 31.12.1922 |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note is dominated by a central oval vignette of Sonnenburg castle ruins set within an elaborate baroque scrollwork cartouche in gold and green, flanked on each side by red shield-shaped value tablets bearing '25 Pf' in white. Two circular red seals of the Stadtgemeinde Bad Sulza are affixed at lower left and right. The lower half carries the denomination in Gothic blackletter script, the payment obligation text, the issue date 'Bad Sulza, am 19. Juli 1921,' and two facsimile signatures below the designations 'Der Gemeindevorstand' and 'Der Gemeinderat,' with the series letter 'B' at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 Pf Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig zahlt die Stadtkasse zu Bad Sulza an den Einlieferer dieses Scheines. Bad Sulza, am 19. Juli 1921. Der Gemeindevorstand. Der Gemeinderat: Seidel Sonne Vorsitz. SONNENBURG STADTGEMEINDE BAD SULZA B. |
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Bad Sulza was a minor spa town in Thuringia best known for its saline baths, and its 1921 notgeld issues were among the more decorative products of the German small-change crisis that followed the First World War. The Spa Series label distinguishes this from the town's other notgeld emissions of the same period — multiple parallel issues from a single small municipality was not unusual but does complicate attribution for collectors today.
The print date of 30 April 1945 is almost certainly a cataloger's error or a misread stamp. That date is the day Berlin fell and Hitler died — no Thuringian municipality was running notgeld presses in those hours.