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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Jacobshagen |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Multicolored reverse printed in dark brown, red, orange and blue on a warm yellow-ochre ground, framed by a bold rectangular border with corner ornaments. Two allegorical putti figures, draped in flowing garments and standing amid fruit-laden vegetation, flank a central arched cartouche containing a vignette of the local church with a tall tower. A baroque crown-and-mask ornament surmounts the cartouche, beneath which the word NOTSCHEIN appears on a banner. The denomination numeral 25 is printed in red at upper left and upper right within framed panels, and the town name JACOBSHAGEN is split across the left and right portions of the composition in large Gothic lettering. |
| Reverse lettering | NOTSCHEIN / Jacobshagen / 25 |
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Jacobshagen was a small Pomeranian market town — today Dobrzany in northwestern Poland — that issued this note as part of the broader German Notgeld phenomenon triggered by the chronic small-change shortage of the early Weimar period. Municipal authorities across thousands of German towns printed their own emergency fractions, often using local printers and local designers to give the notes a distinctly parochial character. The result was less a monetary instrument than a piece of administered civic pride.
Rob. Koch's design credit is the one unusual detail here. Notgeld designers at this level are rarely documented, making even a surname attribution worth noting for researchers tracking regional graphic work of the period.