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25 Pfennige
| Issuer | Amtshauptmannschaft Grimma |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Grimma GUTSCHEIN 25 PFENNIGE Gültig im Bezirke der Amtshauptmannschaft Grimma bis 31. Dezember 1919 Grimma 4. November 1918 Der Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central vignette of Schloss Wurzen (Wurzen Castle) rendered in a fine line-art style against a guilloche underprint in blue and olive. The Saxon royal arms with crossed swords and crown appear in the upper left and right corners. Denomination numeral "25" is repeated at upper centre, lower left, lower right, and lower centre, with the edition inscription "Ausgabe B Reihe 2" at the foot. |
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Grimma's Amtshauptmannschaft — the Saxon district administrative authority, not a municipality — issued this note during the acute small-change shortage of 1918, when hoarding of metal coinage had stripped everyday commerce of anything below the Mark level. These Kleingeldersatz notes were a bureaucratic stopgap, authorized locally rather than by any central banking authority, and their legal tender status rarely extended beyond the issuing district's borders.
The format is almost absurdly small even by Notgeld standards — a product of wartime paper rationing as much as anything else.