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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Arnswalde (City of Arnswalde) |
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| Year | 1920-1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on cream paper in a dense Gothic letterpress style, with large ornamental numeral "25" vignettes flanking left and right within decorative foliate borders. A central cartouche with a blue border contains the redemption text in Kurrent script, dated 1 August 1920, above two manuscript signatures of the Magistrat; the printer's imprint appears in small type along the bottom margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
Arnswalde — now Choszczno in northwestern Poland — was a mid-sized Brandenburg market town whose municipal government, like hundreds of others across Germany, resorted to Notgeld during the chronic small-change shortage that persisted well into the early Weimar period. The Stadt issued this 25 Pfennig through Adolf Forner of Leipzig, a commercial printer responsible for a substantial volume of provincial Notgeld work in this period, though never among the prestige houses.
The watermarked paper is the one detail worth noting: many Notgeld issues of this size and denomination dispensed with security features entirely, treating them as purely temporary scrip. Its inclusion here suggests either a cautious municipal treasurer or a standard stock paper Forner happened to be running at the time.