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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Melle (City of Melle) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note is dominated by a central circular vignette bearing the denomination numeral '25' and abbreviation 'PF' in red, flanked by decorative scrollwork and ribbon banners inscribed 'STADT' at left and 'MELLE' at right. In the lower half, a framed text panel contains a six-line patriotic verse in German blackletter script, bordered on the left by a small vignette of an industrial factory with a smoking chimney and on the right by a figure of a worker tending to a plant. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT MELLE 25 PF Deutsches Mark, Du wurdest schwach. Deutsche Mark, Du folgtest nach. Deutscher Arm, Du wirst Dich straffen, Wieder werken, wieder schaffen. Deutschen Schild soll niemand schelten. Deutsches Geld muß wieder gelten! |
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Melle is a small town in Lower Saxony, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued Kleingeldscheine — small-denomination emergency notes — to address the chronic shortage of fractional coinage that followed the First World War. The Reichsbank had effectively stopped supplying small change, leaving cities and towns to fend for themselves. This note is one of four or six variants in the series, differentiated by serial number color, reverse text, or minor typographic changes depending on which printing run.
Notgeld of this type was frequently collected rather than spent, and the Stadt Melle issues were no exception — many survive in better condition than their metropolitan counterparts.