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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Zweibrücken (City of Zweibrücken) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld voucher printed in dark purple on pale pink paper, enclosed within a decorative letterpress border of interlocking geometric ornaments. The denomination numeral '25' and abbreviation 'Pfg.' appear at the upper left, with the title 'Gutschein der Stadt Zweibrücken' set in bold gothic typeface at centre, accompanied by a circular green municipal seal bearing the Zweibrücken coat of arms with a rampant lion. The issue date 'Zweibrücken, 20. Februar 1917' is printed below, with two manuscript signatures appearing beneath the titles 'Der Gemeinde-Einnehmer:' and 'Der Bürgermeister:'. |
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| Reverse description | Plain pale buff reverse enclosed within a simple double-rule rectangular border, with a lightly visible ghost impression of the obverse municipal seal showing through the paper. The central field is occupied entirely by a justified block of gothic-typeface text setting out the redemption obligation and validity clause, with the words 'Gültigkeit' and 'vier Monaten' emphasised in bold. A large red '25' underprint is visible at centre behind the text block. |
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Zweibrücken's 1917 emergency issue belongs to the vast wave of municipal Notgeld that flooded the German domestic economy once wartime metal requisitions stripped circulation of small coinage. The city — seat of a historic Wittelsbach duchy and, by 1917, a significant Bavarian garrison town — issued these paper fractions through local authority rather than any central banking mechanism, a legal gray area that municipalities exploited with varying degrees of official tolerance from Berlin.
Paper Notgeld of this early type predates the more elaborately printed collector-oriented issues of 1921–22. These 1917 pieces were made to spend, not save.