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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Zweibrücken (City of Zweibrücken) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | C 8049 Wer im Krieg will Unglück han fang es mit den Deutschen an! Zweibrücker Notgeld über fünfundzwanzig Pfennige. Der Gemeinde-Einnehmer: Der Bürgermeister: |
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| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Zweibrücken Die Stadt Zweibrücken verpflichtet sich gegen Einlieferung dieses Gutscheines den Betrag von fünfundzwanzig Pfennigen in bar auszubezahlen. Der Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, falls er nicht bis längstens 31. Dezember 1919 bei der Stadt-Einnehmerei I zwecks Einlösung vorgezeigt wird. Zweibrücken, den 1. Oktober 1918. |
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Zweibrücken's 1918 Kleingeldscheine were issued to address the acute small-change shortage that gripped German municipalities as metal coinage was systematically withdrawn for war production. The city had legal authority to issue these emergency notes under wartime ordinances that effectively deputized local administrations as temporary monetary authorities — a stopgap that produced thousands of distinct local issues across the German states that year.
Zweibrücken sits close to the French border in the Palatinate, and its municipal finances were already under strain when these notes entered circulation. The armistice came just weeks later.