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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Schüttorf (City of Schüttorf) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The note is divided into three vertical panels printed in black and red on a buff-toned ground. The left panel carries the large red denomination numeral '25' above the word 'Pfennig' in Gothic script, followed by the issuing authority 'Stadtgemeinde Schüttorf', the date 'den 1. Nov. 1921', and the legend 'Der Magistrat' above four manuscript signatures. The central panel presents a letterpress vignette of a historic stone tower gate with a pitched roof set against a sky with billowing clouds, rendered in fine hatching. The right panel repeats the red '25 Pfennig' denomination and carries the validity clause in Gothic blackletter text, with the printer's imprint 'Druck von Adolf Forker, Leipzig.' appearing below the outer border. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 Pfennig Stadtgemeinde Schüttorf den 1. Nov. 1921 Der Magistrat Dieser Schein dient dem Verkehre mit der Kämmereikasse. Er wird ungültig einen Monat nach Bekanntmachung. Druck von Adolf Forker, Leipzig. |
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Schüttorf is a small market town in Lower Saxony, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1921 was entirely typical of the period — the postwar coin shortage left municipalities across Germany printing their own fractional paper out of practical necessity, not monetary ambition. Adolf Forker in Leipzig handled a considerable volume of municipal notgeld commissions during this window, producing workmanlike small-format issues for dozens of towns that would never otherwise have appeared on a printer's order book.
The 1921 date places this in the inflationary run-up rather than the hyperinflationary peak, when notgeld still functioned as genuine spending money rather than the collector-targeted "serienscheine" that flooded the market later that year.