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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Badeverwaltung Ostseebad Arendsee |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue, yellow, and black on white paper, with the denomination numeral '25' in large blue digits flanking a central rectangular vignette bordered in yellow. The vignette presents a coastal scene in fine pen-and-ink style, with a grotesque rock formation in the foreground resembling a seated figure, and a calm Baltic seascape receding into the background. Above the vignette, a Low German dialect verse is inscribed in Gothic blackletter script; below, the place name 'OSTSEEBAD ARENDSEE' appears in bold letterpress, with the validity and issuing authority legend 'GÜLTIG FÜR DEN GELDVERKEHR INNERHALB DES ORTSGEBIETS BIS 31/1.1922 — DIE BADEVERWALTUNG' carried across the lower margin, accompanied by manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | PFENNIG. PFENNIG. 25 REHTER GELD OSTSEEBAD ARENDSEE |
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Arendsee — now Kühlungsborn — was a Baltic resort town that, like hundreds of German municipalities in 1922, printed its own small-denomination emergency money when Reichsbank coins disappeared entirely from circulation due to hyperinflation. This is Notgeld in its most local form: issued not by a city treasury or savings bank but by the bath administration itself, the body managing the beach facilities and resort infrastructure.
The issuing authority's specificity is the detail worth noting. A beach administration issuing currency is an artifact of how completely the monetary system had fragmented by mid-1922.