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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Süderbrarup (Municipality of Süderbrarup) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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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 |
| Reverse description | The upper portion carries a multicolour vignette of a large public gathering in front of a flag-bedecked building labelled 'Süderbrarup', with crowds of figures in period dress filling the foreground and smoke rising from a locomotive on the left. The header reads 'Gutschein über 25 Pfennig' in a grey-green panel flanked by the denomination '25 PF.' in each upper corner. A serial number panel in grey-green occupies the lower third of the note within a scalloped frame, all enclosed by a red and black geometric border. |
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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.