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25 Pfennig Camburger Tageblatt
| Issuer | Camburger Tageblatt (Robert Peitz), Camburg an der Saale, Thuringia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 20 Pfennigs (20 Pfennige) (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Amtsgericht (district court) building, erected 1742, with a monument in the forecourt. Denomination panels of 25 Pf. in red at left and right, with redemption and legal-tender text in Gothic script flanking the vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | Cyriaksruine aus der Zeit um 1200. / 25 Pf. / Ich bin Thüringer, will Thüringer bleiben. |
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Camburger Tageblatt was a regional newspaper in the small Saale valley town of Camburg, and like hundreds of other private businesses, municipal bodies, and trade associations across Weimar Germany, it stepped into the currency vacuum of 1921 by issuing its own emergency money — Notgeld. The newspaper's proprietor, Robert Peitz, effectively signed off on what amounted to a locally guaranteed payment token, redeemable against goods or services in a town where Reichsbank notes were either hoarded or simply unavailable in small denominations.
Newspaper-issued Notgeld is among the more unusual issuer categories from the period. Whether Peitz intended the notes to circulate broadly or primarily among subscribers and advertisers is unrecorded.