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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Saarbrücken (City of Saarbrücken) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld (emergency money) voucher printed in dark brown ink on a fine diamond-pattern guilloche ground. The heading reads 'Stadt Saarbrücken' in Gothic Fraktur script, followed by the denomination 'fünfundzwanzig Pfennig' in large display type. The note bears the issue date 25.11.1919 with a manuscript signature of the acting Bürgermeister (kommissarischer Bürgermeister), and two lines of validity text at the foot referencing expiry one month after announcement in the Saarbrücker Lokal-Blättern. |
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| Reverse lettering | NOTGELD. 25 Pfg. STADTKREIS SAARBRUCKEN |
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Saarbrücken's 1919 Notgeld issues were a direct response to the acute small-denomination coin shortage that gripped Germany in the immediate postwar period. The city's chamber issued these emergency fractional notes alongside a broader series of Pfennig denominations, intended for short-term local circulation only — typically redeemable within months of issue.
The Saar region's political status was thrown into uncertainty at exactly this moment: the Versailles Treaty, signed June 1919, placed the Saarland under a League of Nations commission effective January 1920, removing it from German administrative control. Whether any of Saarbrücken's 1919 municipal Notgeld remained technically valid through that transition is a question the issuing authority never cleanly resolved.