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25 Pfennig "Bohrer"
| Issuer | Stadt Staßfurt (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Cream and olive-green note with a central brown underprint panel bearing the elaborately scrolled coat of arms of Staßfurt — a standing figure holding a cross-staff, set within baroque cartouche work. Denomination "25 Pfg" appears in Gothic script on both lateral panels. The printer's imprint "DRUCK · HIMMER AUGSBURG" is at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | Stadt Staßfurt. 25 Pfg Drei Monate nach Bekanntmachung ungültig DRUCK · HIMMER AUGSBURG. |
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Staßfurt sits at the heart of Germany's Kalibergbau district, and the "Bohrer" — the drill — is a direct reference to the potash mining industry that defined the town's economy. This is Notgeld in the most literal sense: a community paying its workers and tradespeople in scrip because Reichsmark coins had effectively vanished from circulation in the inflationary spiral of the early 1920s.
J. P. Himmer in Augsburg was a prolific Notgeld printer, handling municipal contracts from across Bavaria and beyond. The DeNG 2#1256.2 suffix indicates a variant within the Staßfurt series, likely differing in a serial number range, overprint, or paper stock from the primary listing.