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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Rostock (Notgeld) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black and yellow letterpress note with dark blue header band inscribed SEESTADT ROSTOCK in Gothic type; Low German (Reutergeld) dialect text fills the upper register above a central town skyline vignette flanked by yellow denomination panels reading 25 PF. Validity inscription and two facsimile signatures appear along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | REUTERGELD 25 PFENNIG SEESTADT ROSTOCK |
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Rostock's 1922 Notgeld series was issued as the Weimar hyperinflation cycle began accelerating beyond what the Reichsbank could practically service in small denominations. Municipal and local authorities across Germany flooded the economy with emergency issues precisely because coin shortages and inflationary pressure made official small change functionally useless. Rostock, as a major Baltic port city, had both the civic infrastructure and the commercial incentive to issue its own.
The 25 Pfennig denomination places this squarely in the transitional phase — modest enough to address everyday transaction gaps, yet already being rendered obsolete by the pace of price increases that would make the entire Notgeld system unworkable within months.