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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Dahme in der Mark |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Blue and dark brown reverse with a tripartite layout framed by a decorative border. The central panel carries a detailed letterpress vignette of the Landwirtschaftsschule (agricultural school) building, with a caption tablet beneath it. To the left, a hexagonal cartouche encloses the large denomination numeral '25' above the word 'Pfennig', while to the right a matching hexagonal cartouche contains a vignette of a crenellated town gate surmounted by a standing female figure. The date '1920' appears in the upper border band, with the place name 'Dahme' and 'i.d. Mark.' flanking the central vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | 1920 Gut für 25 Pfennig LANDWIRTSCHAFTSSCHULE, LDW. SEMINAR u. WINTERSCHULE. Dahme i.d. Mark. |
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Dahme in der Mark is a small Brandenburg town, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1920, its local magistrate issued Kleingeldscheine to compensate for the severe shortage of low-denomination coinage that had been melting away into wartime metal drives and postwar hoarding. These municipal emergency notes — Notgeld in the strict sense — were a practical stopgap, not a speculative instrument, though collectors quickly turned the series into something else entirely.
The designer credit "Gränzig" is locally attributed and appears on several issues from this municipality. The notes were printed in-house or through a local press rather than a specialist banknote printer, which shows in the relatively modest production quality typical of small Brandenburg Notgeld.