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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Süderbrarup (Municipality of Süderbrarup) |
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| Size | 90 × 55 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a mounted knight in red cloak on a white horse, thrusting a lance into a large green dragon sprawled across a stylized map of the Schleswig-Holstein region, with placenames including Flensburg, Kiel, Apenrade, Tondern, and zonal demarcation lines visible on the map ground. The denomination '25' appears in bold at each corner with 'PF.' abbreviations, and the issuer name 'GEMEINDE SÜDERBRARUP' is printed in large Gothic lettering across the top yellow header band. A validity notice referencing the Schleswig-Holsteinische Landpost and the Gemeindevorstand is printed along the lower margin, accompanied by three manuscript signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | GEMEINDE SÜDERBRARUP 25 PF. Ob schwer auch gehoffen Deutschland wird leben, All unser Hoffen ist sein Erheben; OSTSEE DÄNEMARK Flensburg Apenradea Tondern KIEL Lütjenburg Neumünster GÜLTIG BIS ZUR EINMONATLICHEN KÜNDIGUNG I. DER SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEINISCHEN LANDPOST SÜDERBRARUP GEMEINDEVORSTAND |
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Süderbrarup is a small market town in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of German municipalities it issued its own Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitute — during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany from roughly 1916 onward. Federal and state mints simply could not keep pace with wartime metal demands, and local authorities were formally permitted to fill the gap with paper.
The DeNG reference places this within the first wave of municipal issues, before the hyperinflationary Notgeld of 1921–1923 transformed the practice into a collector-driven industry. Notes from this earlier, purely functional phase were used hard and discarded, making intact survivors proportionally rarer than the later decorative series that were printed specifically for philatelic sale.