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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat Pöttmes (Market Town of Pöttmes) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Landscape-format Notgeld note with a yellow underprint border framing the entire design. At centre, the heraldic shield of Pöttmes — rendered in blue and yellow — bears an interlaced Gothic monogram 'PP' in gold over a field of stylised wing-like hatching with pendant water-drop ornaments. The denomination numeral '25' appears in large Gothic script at upper left and upper right, with 'Pfennig' lettered in matching blackletter across the top. Validity and payability texts are set in Gothic script to the left and right of the shield respectively, with a manuscript signature below the right-hand text panel, and a typeset serial number at the bottom centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 Pfennig 25 Gültig für den Geldverkehr innerhalb des bayr. Marktes Pöttmes Zahlbar für 25 Pfennige Magistrat Pöttmes Nr. 101534 |
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Pöttmes is a small market town in Bavarian Swabia, and this 25 Pfennig Notgeld dates from the peak year of Germany's municipal emergency money phenomenon. The Reichsbank's chronic coin shortage — a direct consequence of wartime metal requisitions and postwar economic dislocation — forced thousands of municipalities, down to the most minor market towns, to print their own fractional notes. Pöttmes was no exception.
By 1921 many such issues were being produced speculatively for the collector trade rather than out of genuine necessity, a practice that inflated print runs and diluted the historical value of the series as a whole.