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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Marienwerder (City of Marienwerder, West Prussia) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeldschein d. Stadt Marienwerder über 25 Pfg. PF 25 Der Magistrat |
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| Reverse lettering | Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht drei Monate nach Aufruf eingelöst wird. |
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Marienwerder sat at the center of one of the more unusual plebiscites of the post-WWI settlement. Under the Treaty of Versailles, the town and surrounding district voted in July 1920 on whether to join Poland or remain with Germany — the result was overwhelmingly pro-German, with over 92% choosing to stay. This Notgeld issue falls directly within that period of political limbo, when the town was under Inter-Allied Commission supervision and normal banking was disrupted enough to make locally-issued emergency fractional currency a practical necessity.
West Prussian Notgeld of this type was typically printed by small regional firms and issued in short runs, which kept survival rates uneven across denominations.