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25 Pfennige
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Königlichen Amtshauptmannschaft Pirna |
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| Printer | Krey und Sommerlad, Niedersedlitz, Germany |
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| Obverse description | The face is printed in dark brown on a rose-tinted guilloche underprint composed of floral and scrollwork patterns. The denomination is expressed both in large Gothic script lettering across the upper field and as the numeral 25 at lower left, rendered with fine line engraving. The issuing authority, Der Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Pirna, is inscribed in script below the denomination, followed by a manuscript signature above the title Amtshauptmann. A validity clause at the foot restricts acceptance to the district of the Amtshauptmannschaft Pirna until 31 December 1920, the whole field enclosed within a chain-link border. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über fünfundzwanzig 25 Pfennige Der Bezirksverband der Königl. Amtshauptmannschaft Pirna Gültig nur im Bezirke der Kgl. Amtshauptmannschaft Pirna und nur bis 31. Dezember 1920 |
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Pirna's district authority — the Amtshauptmannschaft — issued this fractional Notgeld to plug the severe small-change shortage that had gripped Germany by 1916–17, as coin metal was systematically diverted to war production. The issuer here is unusually specific: not a city or savings bank but an administrative district (Bezirksverband), which made these valid only within a tightly defined jurisdiction in Saxony.
Krey und Sommerlad of Niedersedlitz, a small industrial suburb south of Dresden, handled enormous volumes of Saxon emergency paper during this period. At 56 × 42 mm, this is among the smallest paper instruments in the German Notgeld catalogue — intentionally pocket-sized to approximate the coins it replaced.