25 Pfennig Spar- und Darlehnskassen-Verein

Ober-Dorla is a small village in Thuringia, and this note originates from its local cooperative lending association — the Spar- und Darlehnskassen-Verein — rather than the municipality acting in a conventional fiscal capacity. Such cooperative-issued Kleingeld emerged during the acute small-change shortage of the early Weimar inflation period, when the Reichsbank's coin production could not keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. The cooperative had a practical reason to issue fractional scrip: keeping local commercial transactions moving among members.

Association-backed Notgeld from villages this small survives in far lower quantities than town-issued equivalents, simply because fewer were printed.