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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Ratzeburg (City of Ratzeburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 NOTGELDSCHEIN ÜBER 25 PFENNIG STADT RATZEBURG DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT EINEN MONAT NACH ERFOLGTER AUFKÜNDIGUNG DER MAGISTRAT: DAS STADTVERORDNETENKOLLEGIUM: NIX VERDOR I WO DÜER GROSCHENS SIND RÜSPECK HÜT CND STÜER I LÄNG FIX IN DE BÜXIFIV |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 NOTGELD 25 STADT RATZEBURG MIT DEM 800 JÄHRIGEN DOM GEBRÜDER BORCHERS G.M.B.H. LÜBECK |
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Ratzeburg sits on an island in the Ratzeburger See, and in 1921 it was one of hundreds of small German municipalities forced into the Notgeld system by a chronic shortage of small-denomination Reichsmünzen — coins that had largely vanished from circulation through hoarding and metal scarcity following the war. Gebrüder Borchers in Lübeck supplied notgeld to numerous Schleswig-Holstein towns during this period, and the geographic proximity made them the obvious choice for a city that is barely twenty kilometers south.
The .1-1/2 suffix in the DeNG reference indicates a known plate variety within the 1101 type — a detail that matters to specialists tracking the Borchers print runs.