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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Ballenstedt |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 70 x 50 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black and ochre letterpress Notgeld on cream paper. A large circular coin-like vignette at centre bears the numeral 25; above, the word GUTSCHEIN arches across a bold dark band in Gothic script with fir-branch motifs at upper corners. Validity text appears at left, issuer and date at right, with two manuscript facsimile signatures below the legend Der Magistrat. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN über 25 Pfg. Die Gültigkeit erlischt 3 Monate nach öffentlicher Bekanntmachung. Ballenstedt i. Harz, den 28. Sept. 1920 Der Magistrat Stadt Ballenstedt im Ost-Harz |
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Ballenstedt is a small town in the Harz region of Saxony-Anhalt, historically known as the ancestral seat of the House of Ascania. This Notgeld issue dates to the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in 1920, when coin metal was being hoarded and municipal authorities across the country were authorized — or simply took it upon themselves — to print emergency fractional currency to keep local commerce moving.
The DeNG 1#61.1 reference places this within the standard Serienscheine classification. Ballenstedt's issues from this period are not among the rarer Harz-region pieces, but survival in undamaged condition is uneven; the thin paper stock used by many small municipal printers of this run does not age well.