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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Wittenburg, City of |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a large spreading tree in dark silhouette against a pale blue sky, beneath which a shepherd stands among a flock of sheep in a pastoral landscape. The denomination '25' appears at lower left and the abbreviation 'Pfg' at lower right, flanking the vignette in bold black letterpress. A Low German dialect motto in Gothic script arcs across the upper portion of the note, with validity text and the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature at lower left and the issuing authority at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 Pfg 25 Pfg Reutergeld der Stadt Wittenburg |
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Wittenburg — a small town in Mecklenburg, not to be confused with Lutherstadt Wittenberg to the south — issued this Notgeld piece during the hyperinflationary spiral that made Reichsbank small change functionally worthless. Municipal and commercial issuers across Germany filled the vacuum themselves, and by 1922 the volume of such local emergency currency had become staggering. Most Wittenburg Notgeld was redeemed and pulped within months of issue, keeping survivor populations modest.