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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Swinemünde |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Die städt. Sparkasse Swinemünde zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus meinem Guthaben an den Inhaber fünfundzwanzig Pfennig. Swinemünde, den |
| Reverse description | The upper portion of the reverse presents a colour panoramic vignette of Swinemünde as seen from the Waldschlossturm, with church spires, red-roofed buildings, harbour cranes, and a river estuary visible in a broad cityscape. Below the vignette, a dark decorative band frames two columns of verse in Gothic blackletter script, flanked on either side by the denomination numeral '25' with a Pfennig sign in an ornamental cartouche. The caption 'Teilansicht vom Waldschlossturm' appears in script lettering within the vignette at lower right. |
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Swinemünde — now Świnoujście, Poland — was a Prussian Baltic port town whose municipal savings bank issued this 25 Pfennig Notgeld during the inflationary spiral that followed Germany's defeat. Thousands of German municipalities printed their own small-denomination emergency money in this period, as the Reichsbank could not keep pace with demand for fractional coinage. Most were printed in enormous quantities and treated as collectibles from the outset, which is why survivors are common.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott A.G. in Glogau — also a city now within Polish borders — was one of the more prolific Notgeld printers of the era, handling municipal contracts across Silesia and Pomerania.