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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Güsten |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned note with a pink border frame. At left, an oval vignette in decorative yellow and pink guilloche border bears the arms of Güsten — a crenellated tower with a bear above an eagle — flanked by floral corner ornaments. To the right, the denomination '25 Pf.' is rendered in bold script above the validity text and issuance date, with a magistrate signature below. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 25 Gen einen Bären zog man aus, Des Schäfers Ranzen wurde draus Drum ward der Güstener bekannt AlsRänzelstecher rings im Land. Druck von Th. Büchel Güsten H.K. ENGEL |
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Güsten is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and its municipal authority issued this notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in 1921 as postwar inflation began eroding coin circulation. Thousands of German municipalities did the same, but locally printed issues like this one — produced by a town printer rather than a specialist security firm — vary considerably in execution and survival rates.
Th. Büchel was a local commercial printer, not a banknote house. That matters for paper quality and ink stability.