25 Pfennig

Koberg was a tiny rural administrative district in the Duchy of Lauenburg, absorbed into Prussia in 1876 — by 1921, it was among hundreds of small German municipalities issuing Notgeld simply because the central government could not keep pace with postwar small-change demand. Gebrüder Parcus in Munich handled a substantial volume of this municipal emergency currency and brought consistent lithographic quality to what were often otherwise forgettable local issues.

The Herzogtum Lauenburg reference on such notes is an anachronism — the duchy had ceased to exist as a political entity decades earlier, but local identity died slowly.