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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lassan (City of Lassan) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset notgeld printed in dark purple-black on cream paper, with the issuer name 'Stadt Lassan' in large Gothic (Fraktur) blackletter type at the top, followed by 'Kreis Greifswald' in smaller script. The central field carries the denomination numeral '25' in bold oversized type flanked by the text 'Gut für' and 'Pfennig', all set against a decorative purple underprint of scrolling arabesque and guilloche ornaments enclosed within a ruled rectangular border. Below the denomination line, the authority lines 'Der Magistrat:' and 'Stadtkasse:' appear above two manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | № |
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Lassan is a small coastal town on the Peene estuary in Pomerania, and like hundreds of similarly modest German municipalities it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the coin shortage that followed the First World War. The 25 Pfennig denomination was among the most common across all German Notgeld issuances, filling the gap left by hoarded copper and nickel coinage.
Lassan's series is unexceptional within the broader Notgeld phenomenon, which by 1920 had become as much a local promotional exercise as a genuine monetary stopgap.