25 Pfennig

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.