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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Neubukow (City of Neubukow) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue, yellow, and black on cream paper, the note is enclosed within a decorative border with a scalloped inner edge and yellow outer rule, with 'STADT NEUBUKOW' set in bold letterpress along the top margin. A central rectangular vignette in fine line engraving presents a rural scene with a herdsman driving cattle along a tree-lined path, a church steeple rising in the background. The denomination '25 PFENNIG' is rendered in large yellow numerals flanking the vignette, with a Low German dialect verse above and the validity inscription and issuing authority in letterpress along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT NEUBUKOW Lut kamen, wat kümmit, man 'rut ut dese fule Noth! 25 PFENNIG Gültig für den Geldverkehr innerhalb des Stadtgebiets bis 31.5.1922. DER RAT DER STADT NEUBUKOW |
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Neubukow is a small market town in Mecklenburg, and its 1922 emergency issue belongs to the vast wave of municipal Notgeld produced across Germany as postwar inflation outpaced the Reichsbank's ability to supply small-denomination coinage. Towns, businesses, and district authorities printed their own stopgap notes by the thousands — Neubukow among the least prominent issuers in the series.
There is nothing technically unusual about this particular piece. Its collector interest rests almost entirely on local specificity: Neubukow issues appear rarely in general circulation lots, and the town produced a limited series rather than the elaborate multi-part sets some larger municipalities commissioned.