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25 Pfennige
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Aschersleben |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-toned guilloche underprint with a dark blue ornamental border of scrollwork and corner flourishes frames the text-only design. The denomination "Fünfundzwanzig Pfennige" is set in bold blackletter at centre, with payment and validity clauses below in smaller script. Two manuscript signatures appear above the serial number at lower left, alongside a circular municipal seal at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | A dark navy vignette occupies the central field, showing a panoramic townscape of Aschersleben with a tall Gothic church steeple at centre and a domed tower to the left, set against a salmon guilloche background. Decorative floral sprigs fill the upper corners, and a scrolled ribbon banner at the base carries the town name in blackletter. The denomination "25 Pf" is printed in large tan numerals in the upper left of the vignette. |
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Aschersleben's municipal notgeld program of 1920 belongs to the second wave of German emergency currency — no longer the wartime necessity of 1914–18 but increasingly a response to chronic small-denomination coin shortages that persisted well into the early Weimar years. By 1920, many town magistrates had quietly recognized that attractive notgeld also sold to collectors, and print runs were calibrated accordingly. Whether Aschersleben's issue reflects genuine circulation need or collector-market pragmatism is not easily separated at this distance.