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25 Pfennig

Issuer Stadt Melle (City of Melle)
Year 1918
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Size 86 × 39 mm
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Obverse description Notgeld voucher (Gutschein) printed in brown on cream paper, with the issuing authority title 'Stadt Melle' in Gothic script across the upper portion. A central vignette presents a view of a prominent civic or church building flanked on each side by circular cartouches bearing the numeral '25' over 'Pfennig'. The date 'Melle, 18. Oktober 1918' and the war-year inscription 'Kriegsjahr 1918' appear at top and bottom respectively, with a manuscript signature of the Magistrat below the central vignette.
Obverse lettering Stadt Melle
Melle, 18. Oktober 1918
Gutschein über fünfundzwanzig Pfennig
25 Pfennig
Der Magistrat
Kriegsjahr 1918
F. E. Haag in Melle
Reverse description Plain cream paper reverse with a block of justified Gothic text at left setting out the legal tender conditions of the voucher. To the right, a large circular official municipal stamp of the city of Melle is applied in blue-black ink, bearing the legend 'SIGILLUM MELLENSE' around the circumference, with the founding year '1838' at the base and a heraldic wheel or compass motif at the centre.
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