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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Roßla am Kyffhäuser |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Grey and gold notgeld with a floral scroll underprint framing three paper-cut vignettes: left, the Kyffhäuser monument; centre, the church of Roßla with its tall steeple; right, a war memorial with a mourning figure. Denomination '25 Pfg 25' in bold blackletter above, date and serial number below. |
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| Reverse lettering | Dein Bart ist nicht von Glasise, er ist von Feuersglut, ist durch den Tisch gewachsen, worauf sein Kinn ausruht. 4 |
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Roßla am Kyffhäuser is a small locality in the foothills below the Kyffhäuser ridge in Thuringia, and this note is a product of the German Notgeld wave of 1921 — the second, more speculative phase, when municipalities increasingly issued small-denomination emergency scrip not out of genuine coin shortage but because collectors were buying them. The Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau handled a number of these regional commissions out of Saxony.
Georg Schleinitz as named designer suggests a locally commissioned artwork rather than a stock design — a distinction that separates the more considered Notgeld issues from purely formulaic printings.