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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Fürstenberg in Mecklenburg, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in a tricolor scheme of black, teal-blue, and red on cream paper, with a hatched border running the full perimeter. The upper register carries the issuer's name in bold Gothic script, surmounted by the legend 'Gutschein des Luftkurorts'; the central black band bears the denomination '25' in a circular guilloche vignette flanked by the spelled-out value 'FÜNF UND ZWANZIG' and 'PFENIG' in large teal letterpress. The lower section presents the municipal coat of arms — a red shield bearing a rampant lion — flanked by the place and date inscription on a red ribbon banner at left, a redemption clause in German script at lower left, and two manuscript signatures above the legend 'Der Rat:' at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein des Luftkurorts Fürstenberg in Meckl FÜNF UND ZWANZIG 25 PFENIG Fürstenberg, den 1. August 1921 Dieser Gutschein wird an der städtischen Kasse eingelöst, er verliert 4 Wochen nach öffentl. Aufkündigung seine Gültigkeit Der Rat: |
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Fürstenberg an der Havel issued this note as part of the vast Notgeld wave that swept German municipalities between 1919 and 1922, when chronic small-denomination coin shortages forced towns to print their own emergency currency. The Reich's wartime metal requisitions had gutted circulation coinage, and the inflationary spiral made restocking impractical.
Fürstenberg's issues from this period are modestly collected, primarily by regional specialists and Mecklenburg Notgeld assemblers rather than mainstream German currency collectors. The 25 Pfennig denomination was among the most commonly printed across all issuing municipalities — functional change money, nothing more.