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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Plathe (Pommern) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed on a green ground, the obverse presents a central woodcut-style vignette of a riverside townscape with half-timbered houses and red rooftops enclosed within a black-ruled border, flanked by text columns carrying the payment pledge to the left and the denomination to the right. A scrolling banner at the top bears the issuer's name, while a boxed designation 'KONTO A' occupies the lower left. Two manuscript signatures of the Magistrat are inscribed at the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is laid out on a green ground divided into three vertical panels beneath a yellow header band bearing the city name 'Stadt Plathe', flanked by shield cartouches marked '25 Pf.' and a central civic heraldic device with a red griffin. The left panel carries a woodcut-style vignette of two figures in medieval dress with a Low German motto below, the central panel presents a view of the Rathaus (town hall) with its label beneath, and the right panel shows a figure on crutches with a corresponding Low German caption. The printer's imprint 'H. Susenbeth Stettin.' is set below the central panel. |
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Plathe was a small Pomeranian market town — today Płoty, in northwestern Poland — and like hundreds of comparable municipalities in 1922, its savings bank issued notgeld to fill the gap left by chronic small-denomination coin shortages during the hyperinflationary spiral. H. Susenbeth of Stettin handled a large volume of this regional emergency paper, and the firm's output for Pomeranian issuers during this period is broadly consistent in print quality if not in design.
Plathe issues from this year are not among the scarcer Pomeranian notgeld, but local collector demand occasionally pushes prices above what pure scarcity would justify.