25 Pfennig Note, Bitterfeld, Germany, 1921
date: label: date made
content: 1921
label: date on object
content: 1921-06
notes: label: Crowdsourcing
content: Transcribed by Smithsonian digital volunteers
label: Description
content: [[obverse text]]
label: Description
content: 25 PFENNIG 25 / [[image]] Central color image of a church with landscaping. At the left of center is a shield bearing a red tower with a coat of arms on either side of it. On the right of center is a shield bearing the national eagle. [[/image]] / JUNI 1921 / KAPELLE 1323 ERBAUT / DER MAGISTRAT / [[signatures]] / ENTW. H. SCHIEBEL / BITTERSFELD / 1921 / NOTGELD DER STADT BITTERFELD / EINLÖSBAR BEI DER STADTSPARKASSE BITTERFELD BIS / 1 MONAT NACH DER ÖFFENTLICHEN AUFKÜNDIGUNG
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content: [[reverse text]]
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content: ANNO DOMINI 1473 AM SONNABENT VOR JUBILATE ALS DIE SONNE / ZU KISTE GEHEN WOLSE, IST DIE STADT BITTERFELDT VON HANSEN LEINEWEBE / AUSGEBRANT, DIESELB ZEIT SMF GEBHARDT VON MANSSELT IR HERRE / GEMESSEN IST DICTUS VONDE BURGERMEISTER / DES RATS ZU BITTERFELD LO PLALBUCH 1575 BLATT 1B U 2 / IM JAHRE D. ELENDS / 1921 / 25 / PFENNIG / 1473 / UNSER / BITTERFELDER / BRIKETT / US / VIII / 1473 U. 1921 WIR GLEICHEN UNS DOCH SEHR. IHR WARET DA- / MALS ABGEBRANNT WIR SIND'S JETZT NOCH VIEL MEHR
label: Description
content: [[translation]] 1473 and 1921 we are quite the same. you burned down back then and we are know even more (abgebrannt (burned) in German can mean being poor/without any money) [[/translation//
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Saxony-Anhalt, Bitterfeld
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: NNC German Notgeld
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content: NNC Transcription Center German Notgeld 03
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Morton M. Stack
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: NU.NU59831.186
label: catalog number
content: NU59831.186
label: accession number
content: 220791
objectType: label: Object Name
content: note
label: Object Name
content: notgeld
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.2 cm x 10.1 cm x .01 cm; 2 7/16 in x 3 31/32 in x in