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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Neubrandenburg (City of Neubrandenburg) |
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| Year | 1921-1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Central oval vignette presents a tranquil landscape view of a lake near Neubrandenburg — 'Blick a. d. See' — with rolling wooded hills, scattered farmsteads with red-tiled roofs, and billowing clouds rendered in a delicate multicolour lithographic style. The denomination numeral '25' appears in the upper corners against a red guilloché ground. A broad green banner scroll at the base carries the town name 'Neubrandenburg' in large Fraktur type. |
| Reverse lettering | Blick a. d. See Neubrandenburg 25 |
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Neubrandenburg's 25 Pfennig Notgeld falls squarely within the municipal emergency money wave that swept Germany as the Reichsbank failed to keep small-denomination coinage in circulation during the postwar inflation spiral. Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a minor regional printer who took on substantial Notgeld contracts during this period — the firm appears across dozens of municipal issues from Saxony and Prussia, working quickly and cheaply to meet demand that outpaced any serious quality control.
The 1921–22 window is significant: by mid-1923 hyperinflation had rendered Pfennig-denomination Notgeld economically absurd, and most municipal series were withdrawn and pulped. Neubrandenburg's surviving examples owe their existence almost entirely to collector redemption programs that left unspent notes in private hands.