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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Kyritz |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Green guilloche border frames the note on all sides, with the denomination numeral '25' repeated in each corner. A central vignette renders the Kyritz town coat of arms in light green underprint, over which large dark red Fraktur script proclaims the voucher title and denomination. The date 'Kyritz, den 1. Juli 1920' and issuing authority 'Der Magistrat' appear in the lower central field, accompanied by a manuscript signature, above a four-line German verse in the bottom panel referencing local history. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 Einlösung erfolgt bei der Stadthauptkasse. Aufruf wird öffentlich bekannt gemacht. 25 |
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Kyritz, a small town in the Prignitz district of Brandenburg, issued this Notgeld note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the years immediately following World War One. Federal coinage had vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply inadequate in quantity — forcing thousands of municipalities to print their own emergency fractional currency. Kyritz was one of hundreds doing exactly this in 1920, the peak year for municipal Notgeld production.
These small-town issues were printed in enormous variety and often in deliberately limited runs, fueling a secondary collector market that the issuers themselves exploited — some municipalities printed far more than local commerce required, selling directly to collectors for hard currency.