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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Stargard in Mecklenburg |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned notgeld on plain paper with a wood-engraved street vignette at left, rendered in a linear illustrative style and initialled 'H.K.' in the lower right corner of the frame, showing a cobblestone lane flanked by traditional burgher houses with a church spire visible in the middle distance. The issuer's name 'Stargard i.M.' is set in large bold letterpress type across the top, with the denomination '25 PF.' and the term 'Reutergeld' displayed in bold block lettering to the right. The overall ground is printed in a rust-red woodgrain-textured underprint. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse repeats the identical composition as the obverse, with the same rust-red woodgrain-textured underprint, the wood-engraved town street vignette at left initialled 'H.K.', and the bold letterpress legends 'Stargard i.M.', 'Reutergeld', and '25 PF.' This Notgeld issue carries no additional text, serial number, or validation markings on the reverse, the design being a mirror-printed duplicate of the face. |
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Stargard in Mecklenburg — not to be confused with Stargard in Pommern — issued this Notgeld during the inflationary spiral of 1922, when municipal and local authorities across Germany were effectively forced into printing their own small-denomination notes to cover the chronic shortage of Reichsbank coinage and low-value currency. The Reichsbank simply could not keep pace with demand, and towns like this one stepped into the gap.
The Pick-Grabowski reference GrM:1253 catalogues at least two or three known varieties within this issue, distinguished typically by minor typographic or printing differences rather than substantive design changes.