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25 Pfennig Dreyse Series
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Sömmerda |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Sömmerda i. Thür. Dreyse's Geburtsstadt. Fünf Sinne hat das Menschenkind, fünf Hauptteil am Gewehre sind: Ent- Ladungsstock, Schloß, Schaft und Lauf, das Bajonett sitzt oben drauf. Der Zeitpunkt, mit dem die Gültigkeit dieses Scheines abläuft, wird öffentlich angezeigt. Sömmerda, den 1. August 21 Der Magistrat: 25 Pfennig |
| Reverse description | Upper portion carries a panoramic letterpress vignette of the Sömmerda townscape with multiple church steeples and red-roofed buildings, a horse-drawn cart with a rider in the foreground. A heraldic eagle within a red shield cartouche is centred at the lower margin, flanked by two Gothic-script text panels bearing a verse on the Germanic origins of the town's name. |
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Sömmerda's decision to issue notgeld in 1921 was inseparable from the town's industrial identity: this was the home of Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse, inventor of the needle-fire rifle that armed the Prussian infantry through the wars of German unification. The Magistrat leaned hard into that heritage when commissioning Alfred Hanf of Erfurt to design the series.
Wilhelm Adam & Co. in Nerchau handled the printing — a mid-sized commercial press that turned out considerable quantities of municipal emergency currency during the inflation years. The 73mm height puts this among the taller notgeld pieces of its class, unusual for a 25 Pfennig denomination.