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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat Lieberose |
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| Year | 1920-1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld note with a salmon-pink guilloche underprint enclosed within a dotted rectangular border with ornamental corner squares. The large denomination numeral and text 'Gutschein über 25 Pfennig' are printed in bold letterpress across the upper and central fields. At centre, a circular official seal of the Magistrat Lieberose displays a town gate motif, flanked by symmetrical foliate scroll vignettes; below, the issue date 'Lieberose, am 1. Mai 1921.' is separated from three manuscript signatures by a ruled line, above the printed authority line 'Der Magistrat.' |
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| Reverse description | Brown-toned reverse with a fine guilloche underprint, denomination numerals '25' repeated in each corner within ornamental cartouches. Two oval vignettes flank a central denomination roundel: the left oval contains a detailed view of the Rathaus and Kirchen (town hall and church) of Lieberose with the caption 'Rathaus u. Kirchen', while the right oval presents the municipal coat of arms showing a crenellated tower gate above two flanking towers and a floral device. The redemption and validity text is printed in three sections across the upper and lower fields in Gothic letterpress. |
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Lieberose is a small town in the Niederlausitz region of Brandenburg, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the inflationary dislocation of the early 1920s. These local issues filled a genuine gap: fractional coinage had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted, leaving small transactions impossible without substitute currency.
The Magistrat issues from Lieberose are among the more obscure municipal Notgeld series, produced in very limited quantities for purely local use rather than as the collectible "Serienscheine" that larger towns printed speculatively for the philatelic trade.