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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Hagenow (City of Hagenow) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Bärensprungsche Hofbuchdruckerei, Schwerin i. M., Germany |
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| Obverse description | A polychrome lithographed vignette occupies the upper portion, rendered by artist O. Menzel, presenting a panoramic townscape of Hagenow with church spires, brick buildings, and trees reflected in a foreground lake, framed by two ivy-clad columns. A scrolled banner across the top carries the issuer's title in Gothic script, while a central cartouche below bears a four-line Low German verse; the denomination numeral '25' appears in large figures within circular rosette medallions at lower left and right, with the serial number printed in bold typeface along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | A richly coloured rural vignette by O. Menzel fills the central field, with deer grazing at left and cattle at right amid a wooded pastoral landscape, a church steeple visible in the distance; at centre top, the heraldic shield of Hagenow in red bears the bust of a mitred bishop in gold. The denomination '25 PF.' is set within dark hexagonal cartouches at lower left and right, and a scrolled ribbon below carries the issuer's title in Gothic lettering, with a validity clause and the printer's imprint in small roman type along the bottom edge. |
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Hagenow is a small market town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own Notgeld when the Reichsbank could no longer keep small-denomination coinage in circulation. The Bärensprungsche Hofbuchdruckerei in Schwerin was the court printer for Mecklenburg-Schwerin and handled a substantial volume of regional emergency currency — their imprint on Hagenow material is not coincidental, it reflects the practical reality that small towns contracted whoever was geographically and institutionally close.
The designer credit to O. Menzel is uncommon enough to be worth noting; most municipal Notgeld of this period went uncredited.