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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Marienburg (Westpreußen), Der Magistrat |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Typographically composed note printed in purple and black on cream paper, with a double-rule rectangular border and squared corner cartouches each bearing the numeral '25' in purple. The central field carries the full text of the issue in Fraktur blackletter script, including the issuing authority, validity clause, commemorative legend referencing the plebiscite of 11 July 1920, and the magistrate's title. Two manuscript signatures of city officials appear below the body text. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Heimat rief – und alle – alle kamen! |
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Marienburg — now Malbork, Poland — was the seat of the Teutonic Knights' fortress, but by 1920 it was a German town staring down a referendum. The Versailles Treaty required a plebiscite across much of West Prussia, and the vote held in July 1920 returned Marienburg to Germany by an overwhelming margin. This Notgeld issue falls squarely in that anxious interlude, when the city's political future was genuinely uncertain and Reichsbank notes were both scarce and distrusted.
Magistrat-issued Kleingeldscheine from this period were printed in large numbers but often retained as souvenirs rather than spent, which distorts apparent scarcity today.