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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Schwaan (City of Schwaan) |
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| Designer(s) | H. Kaufmann |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into two equal vignette panels, each framed by a red and black border. The left panel shows a male worker standing before industrial peat-cutting machinery in a flat landscape, rendered in a two-colour letterpress illustrative style. The right panel presents a seated figure beside a tall tiled stove with a basket of peat at its side and a framed picture on the wall above. Below each panel a caption text in Low German dialect verse is printed on a grey ground. |
| Reverse lettering | Dor uns hinah bald all de Kahlen, De Feinde hebb'n ui'n Land wegstahlen, Dohn helpen wi uns in unf' Not Mit Schwaanschen Torf, de grad so god. Wi känen böten un Aeten laten Un Schwaanschen Kauken af gormaten. |
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Schwaan is a small town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the inflationary disruptions that followed the First World War. Local authorities printed these notes to address the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage that plagued civilian commerce from roughly 1916 onward. The Oldenburg printing house served a wide regional client base across northern Germany during this period, producing runs for multiple municipalities under essentially the same logistical arrangement.
The P#GrM reference places this within Grabowski & Mehl's Notgeld cataloguing system, the suffix 1/4 indicating it is one of four notes in the Schwaan series — a set almost certainly issued simultaneously rather than across separate dates.