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25 Pfennig

Issuer Stadt Stavenhagen (City of Stavenhagen)
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Currency Mark (1914-1924)
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Reverse lettering Notgeld der Stadt STAVENHAGEN
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"Servitör!" Fritz Reuter
"Seit en vör de Dor!"
"ut de Franzosentid"
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Stavenhagen is a small market town in Mecklenburg best known as the birthplace of Fritz Reuter, the Low German dialect writer whose work dominated regional literary culture in the nineteenth century. Like hundreds of German municipalities, Stavenhagen issued its own Notgeld during the currency disruptions that followed the First World War — small-denomination emergency notes filling a gap the Reichsbank simply couldn't cover at the local level.

Bärensprungsche Hofbuchdruckerei in Schwerin was one of Mecklenburg's established court printers, and the watermarked paper on a 25 Pfennig note is a modest but genuine security measure for what was essentially hyperlocal scrip.

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