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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rat der Stadt Doberan |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 75 × 55 mm |
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| Reverse description | Salmon-pink field printed in dark brown ink, with the denomination numerals '25' placed at upper left and upper right flanking the central inscription 'PFENNIG' across the top. The central vignette carries a detailed line-engraved view of the Doberan Minster complex, rendered with fine hatching to convey the Gothic brick architecture, steepled tower, and surrounding foliage. Below the architectural vignette, a bold Gothic-letterpress legend in two lines identifies the issuing authority. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 PFENNIG 25 VEREUTERGELDN VON BAD DOBERAN |
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Doberan — now Bad Doberan, a small spa town in Mecklenburg — was among the thousands of German municipalities forced to issue Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that followed World War One. The 1921 date places this note in the second wave of local emergency currency, by which point many town councils had turned their scrip into minor graphic art projects, commissioning local artists and printing runs that were deliberately kept small for the collector trade.
Whether this particular Doberan piece was issued for genuine circulation or primarily as Serienscheine — collector-oriented series notes — would require examining the surviving print run figures, which for most Rat der Stadt issues were never formally recorded.