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25 Pfennig Townscape Series
| Issuer | Stadt Zeulenroda (City of Zeulenroda), Thuringia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into three horizontal registers in a multicolour letterpress design. The upper register contains a four-line verse in German within a banner-shaped white panel with blue border. The central black band carries the denomination numeral '25' in bold red on either side, flanking a central oval cartouche in gold with scroll ornaments enclosing the crowned lion coat of arms of Zeulenroda above a brick wall. The lower register bears the issuing authority, date '1.11.21', and a facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister, with the printer's imprint at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 Pf ZEULENRODA |
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Zeulenroda's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the so-called Serienscheine wave — the explosion of municipally issued emergency small change that swept Germany between 1920 and 1922 as federal coin shortages refused to resolve themselves after the war. By 1921 the phenomenon had tipped well past practical necessity into deliberate collectability, with towns competing to produce visually elaborate series that philatelists would buy and never spend. Whether Zeulenroda's burgemeister Romaus intended that outcome or simply contracted Otto Henning in nearby Greiz for a functional stopgap, the result was the same: many of these notes were absorbed into collections immediately and saw no counter use whatsoever.
Otto Henning A.G. in Greiz was a regional workhorse printer for Thuringian Notgeld issues during this period, handling multiple municipal clients across the area.