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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rat der Stadt Feldberg (City Council of Feldberg in Mecklenburg) |
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| In circulation to | 31 May 1922 |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-pink Notgeld on paper, printed in brown, with the denomination numeral '25' in ornate script at both upper corners, each accompanied by 'Pf.' below. The central field carries two stanzas of German verse in Gothic blackletter script, flanked on either side by vertical panels with engraved foliage and floral motifs. A lower vignette presents a panoramic townscape of Feldberg viewed across water, with a church steeple rising at centre; below this scene, the validity legend and issuing authority 'Rat der Stadt Feldberg' appear in Gothic script, accompanied by a manuscript signature. |
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| Reverse description | Salmon-pink ground with brown letterpress printing; the denomination '25 PFENNIG 25' is set in large ornate numerals and bold capitals across the upper panel. The central vignette is a detailed line-engraved street scene showing a traditional half-timbered building with a steeply pitched roof, flanked by a large deciduous tree and a cobbled roadway receding to the left. The lower panel carries the two-line inscription 'REUTERGELD DER STADT / FELDBERG i. M.' in bold sans-serif capitals. |
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Feldberg in Mecklenburg was a small lakeside town, and like thousands of German municipalities it turned to Notgeld between 1917 and 1922 to address the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage. The Rat der Stadt had no printing infrastructure of its own — these notes were almost certainly contracted to a regional printer, as was typical for Mecklenburg Kleingeldscheine of this period. Whether this example dates to the emergency issues of 1917–1919 or the later collector-oriented Serienscheine wave matters considerably for understanding its original purpose.
By 1921, much of what municipalities called "emergency currency" was being printed speculatively for the philatelic market, not for a cashier's drawer.