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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Dassow (Municipality of Dassow) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Size | 75 × 55 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Wenn Olt un Jung tausamen stahn, Denn ward de olle Kar voll gahn. 25 Pfg Dieser Schein hat Gültigkeit bis zum 31. Mai 1922 Der Gemeinde-Vorstand Dassow i/M |
| Reverse description | Printed in black and orange on white paper, the reverse centres on a circular vignette rendered in a bold illustrative style, showing a fisherman in working attire holding a large fish aloft beside a balance scale, with a wicker basket filled with fish in the foreground and the steeple of Dassow church visible in the background. The denomination "25 Pfg" in large blackletter characters occupies the upper left, flanked by decorative black-and-orange diagonal ribbon motifs at left and right margins. The inscriptions "Reutergeld" at lower left and "Dassow" in large display script at lower right complete the design, with the artist's name "Richard Zschekед" noted in the upper right corner. |
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Dassow is a small town on the Trave estuary in Mecklenburg, and its 1922 Notgeld issue is fairly typical of the municipal small-change notes that flooded Germany during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early Weimar period. What distinguishes designer Richard Zscheke's work across several Notgeld commissions is a consistent preference for regional folk motifs over the allegorical bombast favored by larger issuers — a deliberate localism that made these notes more legible to their intended users.
The DeNG reference covering three varieties (260.1–2/3) suggests minor printing or serial variants within the same issue run.