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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Friedrichstadt, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown and red-orange on off-white paper. Central vignette shows a single gabled house flanked by two trees, rendered in a simple illustrative style typical of German Notgeld issues. Text in Low German dialect surrounds the vignette, referencing the 300th anniversary of the Dutch founding of Friedrichstadt and specifying the note's face value of 25 Pfennig. |
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| Obverse lettering | VÖR DREEHUNNERT JOHR HEBBT DE HOLLÄNNERS UNS STADT GRÜNDT FIEF UND TWINTIG PENN ALTE MÜNZE FRIEDRICH-STADT-EID. AM 27. u. 28. AUG. AN. DOM. 1921 (Translation: Three hundred years ago, the Dutch founded our city. Twenty-five pennies Old Coinage Friedrichstadt Eider. On the 27th and 28th of August, Anno Domini 1921.) |
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Friedrichstadt, a small town in Schleswig-Holstein founded by Dutch Remonstrants in the 1620s, issued this Notgeld during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early Weimar Republic. Small municipalities across Germany were printing their own emergency currency at this period because the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough low-denomination coinage and notes to meet everyday transaction demand. Friedrichstadt's issues are among the more collected of the Schleswig regional Notgeld, partly due to the town's unusual Dutch-colonial architectural heritage, which local printers leaned into heavily.
The DeNG reference places this within the third series of the issue.