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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Neustadt |
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| Year | 1919-1921 |
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| Printer | Krey und Sommerlad, Niedersedutz, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über fünfundzwanzig Pfennig Gültig im Bezirk der Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Neustadt bis zum 31 Dezember 1919 Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Neustadt Amtshauptmann |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress on cream paper with floral guilloche underprint and text-laden side borders. Central vignette presents a line-engraved view of Moritzburg Castle reflected in water, flanked by ornate '25' numerals at upper corners. A cartouche below names the redemption bank, with series and issue designations in red above. |
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This note was issued by the Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Neustadt, a rural administrative district rather than a municipal authority — one of thousands of sub-state bodies across Germany that stepped in to address the chronic small-change shortage that plagued the early Weimar years. Silver and copper coins had largely vanished from circulation by the end of the war, hoarded or absorbed into wartime metal drives, and the central government was in no position to plug the gap quickly.
Krey und Sommerlad of Niedersedutz was a regional printer with no particular prestige in the Notgeld trade, and it shows — these district-level issues were purely functional, produced to move through local markets and post offices rather than attract the collector speculation that already surrounded the more elaborately designed municipal series by 1920.