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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Wernigerode |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issue of 25 Pfennig printed by the City of Wernigerode in 1918, bearing the denomination numeral and town identification in a simple typeset layout typical of wartime emergency currency. The face carries the issuing authority's name and the value inscription in Gothic (Fraktur) script within a plain border frame. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries the legal tender clause and validity conditions in Gothic script, with the denomination restated and standard Notgeld text authorizing the note's circulation within the issuing municipality. |
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Wernigerode's 1918 Kleingeldscheine were issued to address the acute small-change shortage that struck German municipalities almost universally in the final year of the First World War. Imperial coinage had been hoarded or melted; the Reichsbank offered no practical solution at the local level, so towns issued their own paper fractions under emergency provisions. Wernigerode — a small Harz town with a notable medieval character — was among hundreds that took this route.
These 25 Pfennig notes were never intended to outlast the crisis by more than a few months.