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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Johannisburg, City of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott A.G., Glogau, Poland |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown on a tan guilloche underprint with an oak leaf and acorn border frame. The denomination numeral appears at left with the city coat of arms of Johannisburg below it, while a red serial number runs across the bottom margin. The field carries the full civic text recording the East Prussian plebiscite of 11 July 1920, dated 1 October 1920, with a manuscript magistrate signature and the printer's imprint at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Dark brown decorative elements on a tan underprint, with a central vignette of the Johannisburg town hall incorporating the Bismarck monument destroyed by Russian forces in 1914. Numerical denomination 25 appears in the lower corners. A four-line patriotic verse in German referencing Masuria occupies the upper portion of the reverse. |
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Johannisburg — now Pisz in northeastern Poland — was a small East Prussian town whose municipal treasury issued this Notgeld during the severe small-change famine that followed the First World War. The Reichsbank had effectively ceased supplying adequate coin to provincial towns by 1920, forcing thousands of German municipalities to print their own fractional notes, each valid only locally.
Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau handled enormous volumes of Notgeld contracts for small issuers across Silesia and East Prussia during this period. The town ceased to exist under its German name after 1945.