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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Lübtheen, Municipality of |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a horse-drawn stagecoach in motion, rendered in a polychrome letterpress illustration with earthy ochre and blue tones. To the lower left, the municipal coat of arms of Lübtheen is printed, quartered with crossed tools and a rampant lion on a blue field. A decorative Low German dialect inscription arcs across the upper portion of the note, with validity text and the denomination numeral "25" alongside the word "Pfennig" at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | A full-width vignette occupies the centre of the note, rendered in bold polychrome letterpress, showing an industrial mining complex with a prominent lattice headframe tower rising above a multi-building colliery facility against a stylised sky. The denomination "25 Pfg" is printed in large Gothic numerals at the upper left and upper right corners. Below the vignette, a bold Fraktur inscription reads "Reutegeld Lübtheen i/M", with artist signatures "Richard" and "Zscheked" visible at the lower left and right margins of the illustration. |
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Lübtheen is a small town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities, it issued Kleingeldscheine during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany from roughly 1916 onward. The DeNG reference grouping suggests at least three related notes in this series, likely differentiated by date, signature, or minor typographic variation — the kind of distinctions that matter to Notgeld specialists but are invisible to casual handling.
Mecklenburg municipal issues of this type were typically authorized and circulated at the local level with no central oversight, which means surviving documentation on print runs and redemption rates is sparse or nonexistent.