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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Graal (Municipality of Graal) |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a central vignette of a rural scene with a windmill, trees, and grazing cattle rendered in a woodcut-style illustration. The denomination '25 PF' appears in large type at left and right flanking the vignette, with the inscription 'WAS DEN MENSCHEN GEFÄLLT, HERVOR SPROSST BEI ALTEN KAU REDEN' arching across the upper portion. Below the vignette, the text 'OSTSEEBAD GRAAL' and issuer details including 'DIE BADEVERWALTUNG' are printed, with a facsimile signature in the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a central vignette of sailing vessels on the open sea, executed in a fine letterpress illustrative style with a lightly tinted yellow underprint. The text 'Reutergeld' appears in bold gothic lettering at the top, while 'OSTSEE BAD' is printed at lower left and 'GRAAL' at lower right, flanking the denomination 'PFENNIG 25' centered below the vignette. |
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Graal was a small Baltic seaside resort on the Mecklenburg coast, and like hundreds of German municipalities during the Weimar-era Notgeld wave, it issued its own emergency small-change notes to compensate for the chronic shortage of official coinage between 1916 and the early 1920s. The DeNG reference suggests this belongs to the earlier "Kleingeldscheine" series rather than the later collector-targeted Serienscheine, though the distinction matters — resort towns frequently issued decorative pieces specifically timed to summer tourist season, knowing visitors would pocket them as souvenirs rather than spend them.
The municipality of Graal merged with neighboring Müritz in 1920 to form Graal-Müritz, which makes pre-merger municipal issues attributable strictly to "Gemeinde Graal" relatively short-lived by definition.