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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat Strasburg in der Uckermark |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents the municipal coat of arms of Strasburg in the Uckermark — a stone fortified wall with three red-roofed towers above a red Brandenburg eagle — set against a panoramic townscape vignette showing church steeples and rooftops flanking a body of water. Denomination numerals '25' appear in blue in the upper left and right corners within ruled boxes, with a ribbon scroll above the shield bearing the town name in Gothic script. Three text panels along the lower margin carry the issuing authority, denomination in words, and validity clause, with the magistrate's signature 'Merk' at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | Wer kanns machen überall Daß es jedermann gefall Das Rathaus. Strasburg-Uckermark 1921 Der Magistrat: Merk. Gültig bis auf Widerruf. O Strasburg, o Strasburg du meine Heimatstadt Dein denk ich bis mein denken Dereinst ein Ende hat! |
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Strasburg in der Uckermark — not to be confused with the Alsatian Strasbourg — was a small Brandenburg town that issued this Notgeld during the inflationary spiral of 1921, well before the hyperinflationary peak of 1923 but at a point when small-denomination coinage had already effectively vanished from circulation. The Magistrat's decision to commission J. Adolf Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu reflects a common pattern: Bavarian specialty printers handled a disproportionate share of municipal emergency currency orders from across Germany, regardless of regional distance.
The single signature, Merk, belongs to a town official whose exact role in the Magistrat is not documented in standard Notgeld references.