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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Verden (Aller), Magistrat |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT VERDEN GUT FÜR 25 PFENNIG Verden (Aller), den 15. November 1918 Der Magistrat Der Bürgervorsteher Wortführer Dieser Gutschein wird an allen städtischen Kassen von Verden jederzeit in Zahlung genommen; er verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung des Magistrats zur Einlösung bei der Kämmereikasse Verden gelangt. |
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| Reverse lettering | STADT VERDEN GUT FÜR 25 PFENNIG Verden (Aller), den 15. November 1918 Der Magistrat Der Bürgervorsteher Wortführer Dieser Gutschein wird an allen städtischen Kassen von Verden jederzeit in Zahlung genommen; er verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung des Magistrats zur Einlösung bei der Kämmereikasse Verden gelangt. |
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Verden an der Aller, a small cathedral town in Lower Saxony, began issuing Notgeld in 1918 as the wartime metal shortage made small-denomination coinage effectively disappear from circulation. Municipal Magistrate-issued paper was the practical fix — not a banking instrument but an administrative stopgap, authorized and distributed locally to keep trade moving at the butcher and the bakery.
First-series Verden Notgeld is not rare, but the 1918 paper issues attract more attention than the 1921 decorative pieces precisely because they were functional rather than collector-targeted.