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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Neustettin |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse of this Notgeld note is printed in a two-colour letterpress design typical of early 1920s German emergency currency, centred around the denomination numeral '25' set within a decorative panel. The issuing authority inscription identifies the City of Neustettin, with the face value stated in Pfennig below the central vignette. Ornamental border elements frame the composition, consistent with the output of the Adolf Forker printing house. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a simple typographic layout with the denomination and validity conditions stated in period German script, framed by a plain decorative border. Text panels confirm the note's validity as an emergency circulating medium issued by the municipal authority of Neustettin. The overall design is unadorned, reflecting the utilitarian nature of Kleingeldersatz notes of this era. |
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Neustettin — now Szczecinek in northwestern Poland — issued a raft of Notgeld denominations in 1921 as the Reichsbank struggled to keep small change in circulation during the inflationary spiral that preceded the hyperinflationary collapse of 1922–23. Adolf Forker was a Leipzig commercial printer who handled municipal Notgeld contracts for numerous German towns during this period; the work was high-volume and fast, not prestige printing.
Neustettin's issues are moderately common in collector holdings. The city changed hands after World War II under the Potsdam Agreement, its German population expelled in 1945.