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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rat der Stadt Güstrow |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in deep blue and orange, with a large central vignette of a mare and foal grazing, rendered in a bold expressionist woodcut style against an orange ground. The denomination "25 Pfennig" arcs across the upper field in large red letterpress type. Below the vignette, a Low German proverb is set in Gothic script, followed by the validity notice and the issuing authority inscription in Fraktur, with a manuscript facsimile signature beneath. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 PFENNIG Wi Nedderdütschen sünd en hart Holt, wat langsam Füer fangt, akwer denn ok Hitt giwwt. Gültig im Geldverkehr innerhalb des Stadtgebietes bis zum 31. Mai 1922. Rat der Stadt Güstrow i. M. |
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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.