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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Eutin (City of Eutin) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 PFENNIG SIGILLVM · OPIDANORVM · EVTINGENSIV Magistrat. Stadtrat. EUTIN, im Dezember 1920. |
| Reverse description | Green and red note with a fine guilloche underprint and a bold decorative border in dark green. The central vignette, set within an oval frame bordered by a wreath of red roses and green foliage, presents a detailed letterpress view of the Voss-Haus in Eutin, with the building's name inscribed on a sign above its facade and a tower with an onion dome visible to the left. Large red denomination numerals '25' occupy all four corners of the field, while the text running vertically along the left, right, top, and bottom borders constitutes a humorous verse about the scarcity of small change. |
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Eutin's 1920 Pfennig notgeld belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded northern Germany as federal small change disappeared from circulation. The city of Eutin — a small ducal residence town in Holstein, better known as the birthplace of Carl Maria von Weber — issued these notes through the typical civic mechanism of the period, with the local authority standing behind the face value.
The print date of 30 April 1945 is almost certainly a catalog anomaly or transcription error; that date is the day Hitler died in Berlin, and no functioning German municipal print operation was producing notgeld a quarter-century after its legal validity had lapsed.