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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Vorderstadt Güstrow (Bürgermeister und Rat) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Printer | Carl Michaal'sche Hof- und Ratsbuchdruckerei, Güstrow i. M. |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress Notgeld on plain paper with a decorative rectangular border bearing repeated denomination inscriptions '25 PFENNIG' along all four margins. The upper portion carries the issuer title 'Vorderstadt Güstrow' in Gothic script above a validity clause, followed by the large central legend 'Gutschein über 25 Pfennig' in bold Fraktur typeface. The lower section bears the place and date 'Güstrow, am 4. Dezember 1918' to the left, the authority 'Bürgermeister und Rat' to the right, and a manuscript signature below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown on a vertically lined pale ground, dominated by a large central vignette of a scallop-edged cartouche containing the denomination '25 Pfennig' in bold Gothic script. A serial number in red appears in the upper right corner, followed by an asterisk. The printer's imprint is set in small roman type along the lower margin. |
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Güstrow's municipal administration issued this note under the emergency currency provisions that swept through German towns in 1918, as the Reichsbank's coin supply collapsed under wartime metal demands. The printer, Carl Michael'sche Hof- und Ratsbuchdruckerei, was a local press — the note never left the town's economic orbit in any meaningful sense, intended purely for small transactions among residents who had no alternative.
Güstrow Notgeld of this period is modestly collected but rarely exceptional. The 1918 municipal series predates the more elaborate and deliberately collectible Notgeld issues that flooded the market from 1920 onward, produced cynically for philatelic sale rather than actual need.