25 Pfennig

Badetz is a small settlement near Zerbst in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, and in 1918 its pig-breeding estate issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to cope with the wartime coin shortage that had stripped small denominations from circulation across Germany. Agricultural estates issuing their own scrip was not unusual in this period; workers and local tradespeople simply had nothing else to use for small transactions.

The DeNG reference places this firmly within the documented German Notgeld corpus, with two known varieties (.1 and .2) distinguished typically by minor typographic or color differences. Estate-issued pieces from this level of rural operation survive in far smaller quantities than town-issued equivalents.