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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rat der Stadt Güstrow |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in navy blue, orange, and olive green, with a central architectural vignette of Güstrow Palace rendered in a detailed letterpress illustration, its distinctive round corner tower with orange conical roof occupying the left foreground, flanked by trees against a violet sky. The lower panel carries the denomination and note series name in large bold green Art Nouveau lettering on a dark ground. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 PFENNIG REUTERGELD GUSTROW |
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Güstrow's municipal authority — the Rat der Stadt — issued this 25 Pfennig Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany from roughly 1917 onward, when metal was being absorbed by the war effort and the Reichsbank offered no practical solution for low-denomination transactions. Towns across Germany printed their own emergency fractions, and Güstrow was among hundreds of municipal issuers doing exactly that.
Paper Notgeld from this period varies enormously in survival quality, as much of it circulated hard in local retail before being redeemed or simply discarded when the shortage eased.