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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Preetz (City of Preetz) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#1071.1 |
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| Reverse description | Woodcut-style vignette in dark red and black on cream paper, centred on a humorous genre scene of a barefoot wanderer seated astride a wooden fence rail, carrying a bindle over his shoulder, rendered in bold expressionist line work. A radiating sunburst fills the background, flanked by silhouetted industrial and rural skylines at each side. The denomination numeral '25' appears in all four corners, with a curved banner inscription in Gothic script arching across the upper field; an artist's signature appears in the lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | Ik will dat Schnauzen leern 25 25 25 25 |
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Preetz is a small town in Schleswig-Holstein, and this note is a product of Germany's notgeld fever — the wave of locally issued emergency paper that flooded the country between 1918 and 1923 as small change became impossible to find. Hundreds of municipalities, businesses, and institutions printed their own scrip, with wildly varying quality and intent. By 1921 the practice had become as much a commercial venture as a monetary one, with many towns issuing artistically elaborate series aimed squarely at collectors rather than cashiers.
Whether Preetz's 25 Pfennig saw genuine counter use is the real question with pieces like this.