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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Der Rat der Stadt Grabow |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Violet-toned notgeld on a purple underprint ground, with a vignette on the left side showing a tall industrial or agricultural timber structure (likely a drawbridge or loading crane) set against a rural landscape with trees and a recumbent worker in the foreground. The denomination numeral '25' appears in large outline script at upper right, followed by a Low German verse in Gothic script occupying the centre field. Below the verse, the issuing authority text and validity clause are set in letterpress capitals, with two manuscript signatures identifying the Bürgermeister and Stadtsekretar. |
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| Reverse lettering | 75 Pf. BÜRGERGELD DER · STADT GRABOW |
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Grabow, a small town on the Elde in Mecklenburg, issued Notgeld like hundreds of other German municipalities during the acute small-change shortage of 1917–1921. The Rat der Stadt — the town council — acted as issuing authority in the absence of any banking alternative, a common administrative arrangement for these municipal emergency issues. Whether this particular note circulated heavily or was absorbed early into the collector trade that grew up almost simultaneously with the issues themselves is difficult to say; Grabow was not a major industrial center, so genuine transactional demand was limited.