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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Templin, City of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in dark brownish-red on an unprinted paper ground, the reverse is dominated by large Gothic script lettering spelling 'Fünfundzwanzig' across the top and 'Pfennig' across the bottom, with bold numeral '25' medallions to the left and right centre. A central oval cartouche, enclosed within decorative scroll-work, lists the participating local merchant firms that guaranteed redemption of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | Fünfundzwanzig 25 Pfennig A. Bundfuß C. Schraermeyer-Ekers Auth. Ed. Brusch Nachf. in Templin W. Rettig W. Neitsch Lehdenick H. Wichmann Lychen B. Sattelkow Boitzenburg A. F. Schneider Gerswalde Zt. |
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Templin's 1920 Pfennig notgeld came out of the same postwar coin shortage that pushed hundreds of small German municipalities into printing their own emergency fractional currency. Adolf Forker was a Leipzig commercial printer regularly contracted for notgeld runs during this period — competent, prolific, and not particularly distinguished from the dozens of similar firms feeding the same demand across Saxony and Prussia.
Templin itself is a small Brandenburg market town, and its notgeld issues attract modest collector interest primarily as regional completions rather than for any particular rarity or printing curiosity.