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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Meppen (City of Meppen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Meppen 25 Pfennig Meppen, 31. Mai 1921 Der Magistrat: Der Gutschein verliert 1 Monat nach Aufruf in hiesigen Zeitungen seine Gültigkeit. zahlt die Stadt für diesen Schein Wenn sie's noch hat. G. A. HÜLSWITT, MÜNSTER i. W. |
| Reverse description | The reverse repeats the rose-pink and black colour scheme with matching header and denomination panels. The central panel, printed on a solid black ground, presents a circular medallion reproducing the medieval seal of Meppen dated 'Anno 1261', with a noblewoman on horseback holding a falcon, surrounded by the Latin legend 'SIGILLUM DE MUNDELION DOMINA DE MEPENA ET VECHTA'; flanking text identifies it as 'ALTESTES DAMENSIEGEL DEUTSCHLANDS' and '(ARCHIV STADT MEPPEN)'. Below the medallion a Low German folk couplet is set in a white panel. The lower left corner carries a crowned heraldic arms vignette, and the validity notice repeats in the bottom border. |
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Meppen's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — by this point the Reichsbank had largely accepted that cities and towns would paper over the chronic small-denomination coin shortage themselves. Hülswitt in Münster was a regional workhorse printer for Westphalian Notgeld, producing issues for dozens of smaller municipalities across the area, which means this note shares press ancestry with a wide range of similarly formatted pieces from the same period.
The hyperinflation that would render all of it worthless was still two years out.