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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Roßla am Kyffhäuser (Municipality of Roßla) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in grey-green and gold tones, with a decorative foliate border forming the underprint. Three tipped vignette panels are arranged across the centre: at left, the Kyffhäuser monument (inscribed 'Kyffhäuser Denkmal'); at centre, the church of Roßla (inscribed 'Kirche Roßla'); and at right, a war memorial (inscribed 'Krieger Denkmal'). The denomination '25 Pfg.' is inscribed in bold Gothic script at the top alongside the title 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Roßla am Kyffhäuser', with the date 'Roßla, d. 1. Juli 1921', a serial number, and the text 'Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung' below, with the issuing authority signature at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is executed as a striking Scherenschnitt (paper-cut silhouette) vignette in black, white, grey, and red-orange tones. The central panel presents a bold silhouette composition: a large bear bowing over a kneeling female figure before a radiant sun, with flocks of ravens in flight and the Kyffhäuser monument silhouetted at lower left. Decorative red-orange border rules frame the composition, with additional flying raven silhouettes in the grey side panels. A two-line verse in Gothic script runs above and below the central vignette. |
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Roßla am Kyffhäuser sits at the foot of the Kyffhäuser massif in Thuringia, the ridge famous in German folklore as the sleeping-place of Frederick Barbarossa. The municipality issued this Notgeld note in 1921 under the broader emergency currency wave that swept thousands of small German towns during the postwar coin shortage — but Roßla leaned hard into local mythology, which was the whole point of regional Notgeld by that stage: collectability over utility.
Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau, Saxony, was a modest municipal press that handled a handful of these small-town commissions. Georg Schleinitz, also based in Glauchau, served as designer — a local arrangement typical of the Saxony printing trade at the time.