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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Zarrentin (Municipality of Zarrentin) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a detailed nature vignette in purple and yellow tones, with flowering dandelions and wild grasses at centre, flanked by trees, and two bees in flight above the blooms. The large denomination numeral '25' with Pfennig symbol is set against the floral composition in the lower centre. Below, a yellow panel bears a four-line Low German verse, with the validity and issuing authority inscription — 'DIESER SCHEIN GILT NUR IM INNEREN ORTSVERKEHR BIS ZUM 31.5.1922. DER GEMEINDE-VORST. ZARRENTIN' — printed along the bottom margin, accompanied by two facsimile signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 PF. REUTERGELD 25 PF. ZARRENTIN |
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Zarrentin is a small town on the Schaalsee in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921–1923, it issued its own emergency paper — Notgeld — to cover a chronic shortage of small change that the Reichsbank simply could not supply fast enough during the inflationary spiral. These municipal issues were legal in a practical rather than a strict statutory sense: tolerated by necessity, not formally authorized by the central government.
Zarrentin's series is among the more obscure provincial issues, with collector demand driven almost entirely by regional interest rather than any printing distinction.