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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinderat der Stadt Müllheim in Baden |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Pink paper Notgeld printed in black letterpress on a salmon-pink ground with a fine guilloche underprint incorporating a central imperial eagle vignette. An ornate rectangular border frames the note, with grapevine and cluster motifs at each corner; the denomination numeral '25' appears in bold at upper right and lower left. The text is set in Fraktur blackletter script throughout, with the issuing authority's name and a payment guarantee clause occupying the lower half, below which a manuscript signature appears. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, also printed on salmon-pink paper in black letterpress, carries a serial number in large typeface at the top centre within the inscription line. The central vignette within a circular guilloche rosette shows a bunch of grapes with vine leaves, flanked on either side by two additional guilloche rosette underprints. The validity clause is set in Fraktur script across two lines at the foot of the note. |
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Müllheim is a small market town in the Markgräflerland, and like hundreds of German municipalities it resorted to printing its own fractional emergency currency during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. This 25 Pfennig piece is Kleingeldscheine — small change paper — a product of bureaucratic necessity rather than any monetary ambition. The Gemeinderat, the town council itself, served as the issuing authority, which was entirely typical of smaller Baden communities that lacked a local savings bank or chamber of commerce to handle the function.
The Grabowski and Verbücheln references place this within a well-documented regional series, though surviving examples in undamaged condition are rarer than catalog frequency suggests — these notes were spent hard.