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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Neustettin (City of Neustettin) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black and ochre on cream paper, the obverse is framed by an ornate chain-link border. The upper register carries the title legend in bold Gothic blackletter script across two lines, flanked at left by the denomination numeral '25' within an ochre-highlighted square cartouche. A central text panel in a ruled rectangular frame bears the redemption clause dated 14 April 1919 at Neustettin, with the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat' and a manuscript signature. The lower register repeats the denomination in large decorative Gothic script 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig', with a matching '25' cartouche at right. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green on cream paper, the reverse bears at left a lengthy anti-counterfeiting warning text in Gothic blackletter script within an unbordered field. To the right, a large circular municipal seal vignette carries a heraldic eagle displayed, surrounded by the legend 'Neustettin' and 'Stadtgemeinde' along the inner ring with decorative stars. The denomination '25 Pfg.' appears in the upper right and lower left corners in Gothic numerals, with the printer's imprint 'Adolf Forker, Leipzig' at the lower left margin. |
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Neustettin — now Szczecinek in northwestern Poland — issued this note as part of the wave of municipal Notgeld that flooded Germany following the armistice. The city's fiscal situation in early 1919 was complicated by its proximity to contested territory: Pomerania remained German under Versailles, but the borderlands were in administrative flux, and small-denomination coin had effectively vanished from circulation well before the war ended.
Adolf Forker was a Leipzig commercial printer who handled Notgeld contracts for numerous municipalities in this period — efficient, unremarkable work, produced in bulk. The notes were not intended to outlast the immediate shortage.