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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Parchim (City of Parchim) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Expressionist-style vignette in brown and orange tones illustrating a humorous scene of a man leaning over a large pig amid straw, with a smaller figure visible at lower centre; the denomination '25 PFENNIG' appears in large letterpress numerals along the lower margin. A two-line Low German dialect motto arches across the upper portion of the note, with validity text and the issuing authority inscription printed within a framed panel in the upper central field. |
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| Reverse description | Brown and orange letterpress vignette set within an arched frame, showing the profile bust of a man raising a speaking trumpet (megaphone) to his mouth, with a street scene of a traditional Parchim townhouse visible through the arch behind him. Denomination numerals '25' appear in ornamental roundels at upper left and upper right corners, with the inscriptions 'PFENNIG REUTERGELD PARCHIM' in bold block lettering across the lower margin. |
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Parchim's 25 Pfennig notgeld from 1921 belongs to the second major wave of German municipal emergency currency — issued not because of wartime disruption but because Reichsbank coin simply wasn't reaching small-denomination circulation fast enough during the postwar economic strain. Towns across Mecklenburg printed their own stop-gap issues with varying degrees of civic pride and varying degrees of printing quality.
The DeNG reference 1045.1-2/3 indicates multiple color or text variants within what is essentially the same base design, a common feature of Parchim's output and worth confirming before cataloging as a single lot.