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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Herrschaft Racot (Gutskasse Racot) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper ground with a central crowned heraldic shield vignette bearing a diagonal band and floral elements, encircled by a motto band reading VIGILANDO ASCENDIMUS. The denomination numeral 25 appears in bold letterpress to the left and right of the central device, each accompanied by a Pfennig symbol, with the issuer legend HERRSCHAFT RACOT arched above and the year 1918 below in large figures. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper ground with minimal letterpress layout. The word EINLÖSUNGSSTELLE curves along the upper arc, with the denomination 25 Pfennig centered below it; two horizontal dotted rules divide the field, beneath which the year 1918 is printed centrally, flanked by the curved inscription GUTSKASSE RACOT. |
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Gutsgeld — estate money — issued by private landowners during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the final year of the First World War. The Herrschaft Racot was a landed estate in the Poznań region, then part of the Prussian province of Posen. These notes circulated among estate workers and local tradespeople as a purely practical substitute for Reichsmünzen that had long since disappeared from everyday commerce into hoarding and metal requisitions.
Within a year of issue, the armistice and the subsequent transfer of the Posen region to the newly reconstituted Polish state rendered this Gutsgeld worthless on both sides of the new border.