Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
25 Pfennig Weapon Series
| Issuer | City of Suhl (Magistrat der Stadt Suhl) |
|---|---|
| Year | |
| Type | Local banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Brown and cream reverse with a thick decorative border. A central cream panel carries a finely drawn vignette of a double-barrelled hunting shotgun with sling, rendered in a linear illustrative style alluding to Suhl's renowned arms-manufacturing trade. The denomination numeral '25' appears in each of the four corners, and two elongated lozenge ornaments flank the central panel on left and right. The caption is split between a top and bottom banner in Gothic blackletter script. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Hertwig |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Suhl had been a center of arms manufacturing since the sixteenth century — rifles, shotguns, and military hardware defining the town's economy more completely than almost any comparable German city. The choice of a weapons theme for this Notgeld series was not decorative patriotism; it was a direct statement about the town's industrial identity at a moment when that identity was under enormous pressure. The post-WWI restrictions on German arms production hit Suhl harder than most places.
Adolf Forker of Leipzig handled the printing, working from designs by local artist K. Mundt. Three color variants exist within the 1303 reference grouping.