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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Neuruppin (City of Neuruppin), Notgeld |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette illustrates a group of children gathered around an open picture-book, rendered in a charming illustrative style evoking the Neuruppin broadsheet printing tradition, set against a background silhouette of a townscape. The denomination numeral '25' appears in circular medallions at each corner, with 'Pf.' at lower right, all within a matching red acanthus-scroll border. A yellow banner at top carries the title inscription in Gothic script, and the series and serial number are printed in a yellow panel at the bottom, with the printer's imprint below. |
| Reverse lettering | Bilderbogen aus Neuruppin 25 Pf. SERIE 1 · NR. 169255 ✻ |
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Neuruppin's Notgeld was produced locally by Oehmigke & Riemschneider, a firm with deep roots in the town — they were among Germany's more established regional printers and had been operating there since the nineteenth century. The city leaned on them heavily during the 1920–1921 small-change crisis, when coin shortages forced hundreds of German municipalities to issue their own emergency currency. Neuruppin was hardly unique in this, but the local production kept the design and printing contract within the community rather than outsourced to the large Leipzig or Berlin houses that handled most Notgeld runs.
Neuruppin is Karl Friedrich Schinkel's birthplace, a fact the city has never been shy about invoking.