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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Wunsiedel |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#W66.4a |
| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Wunsiedel is printed at top center within an ornate scrollwork cartouche, flanked by the numeral '25' in red at each corner. The denomination '25 Pfennig' is rendered in bold Gothic blackletter script, beneath which the text of the Kriegsnotgeld issue appears in Gothic lettering, followed by the date '11. November 1918' and a manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister above the printed title 'Stadtmagistrat'. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 Pf. |
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Wunsiedel is a small Franconian town near the Czech border, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1918, its Stadtmagistrat issued emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of low-denomination coins from circulation. Copper and nickel had been systematically requisitioned for war production since 1916, leaving ordinary commercial transactions without a workable medium below the Mark level.
The DeNG reference places this within a documented series for Wunsiedel, suggesting the municipality issued multiple denominations under the same authorization. Paper quality on these municipal issues varies considerably — many were printed on whatever stock was locally available by the time the armistice approached.