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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bad Kleinen, Municipality of |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | The central panel, printed in pink-rose, bears the issuing authority text and validity clause at top, three facsimile signatures of the Gemeindevorstand, and a large yellow-gold denomination cartouche with '25 PF.' in ornate Gothic numerals outlined in dark brown. Below the cartouche, a block of Low German (Plattdeutsch) verse in Gothic script — characteristic of the Reutergeld series — fills the lower portion of the panel. Flanking the central panel on both sides are fine-line letterpress vignettes of wooded lakeside landscapes with tall conifers and birch trees, rendered in black ink on cream paper. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gültig im Geldverkehr innerhalb des Ortsbezirks bis zum 31. Mai 1922. Bad Kleinen i. M. Der Gemeindevorstand: 25 PF. Nich unst Herrgott drop uns hir mit Jammer un Elend, ne! de Niederträchtigkeit von Minschen, de ehr grausam Gelüst an uns utlaten wullen, de nicks mit unsen Herrgott, desto mihr aewer mit den'n Düwel tau dauhn hadden. |
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Bad Kleinen is a small railway junction town in Mecklenburg, notable mainly for where its branch lines split toward Wismar and Schwerin. Like hundreds of German municipalities, it issued small-denomination Notgeld during the postwar emergency currency period when official small change effectively vanished from circulation. The 25 Pfennig note is among the most common denominations in the entire Notgeld universe — towns needed it to make change, and printers turned them out by the thousands.
Nothing in the available data distinguishes this particular piece from the broader municipal output of 1918–1922.