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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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| Reverse description | The reverse is laid out with a blue-grey dot-pattern ground within a gold and black ruled border. At centre, a large oval vignette enclosed by an elaborate gold acanthus scroll frame presents a letterpress townscape of Zeulenroda, with a street scene of period buildings, a church steeple rising in the middle distance, and figures in the foreground. Flanking the central vignette are two oval medallions, each in blue-grey with a gold cartouche border, bearing the denomination numeral '25' over the word 'PFENNIG'. A scrolled ribbon banner at the base carries the town name in stylised script. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 PFENNIG Zeulen=roda |
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Zeulenroda's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the brief window when German municipal authorities treated emergency currency as a civic promotional exercise. The "Townscape Series" label reflects a broader Thuringian fashion for pictorial Notgeld — notes designed to attract collectors as much as to function in trade, often deliberately printed in sets to encourage hoarding rather than circulation. Otto Henning A.G. in nearby Greiz was a regional printer active across multiple Thuringian municipal issues during this period, which accounts for the consistent production quality seen across small-town Notgeld from this corner of Germany.