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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rat der Landes-Hauptstadt Neustrelitz |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue-grey and salmon-orange Notgeld on a lined underprint background. A central circular vignette contains a neoclassical temple or mausoleum with a columned portico set among trees, printed in black over an orange ground. The denomination '25 Pfennig 25' appears in large white numerals flanking the vignette at centre, with the issuing authority inscription and validity clause at the top, and three lines of Low German verse by Fritz Reuter at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Landeshauptstadt Neustrelitz 25 Pf. Reutergeld 25 Pf. |
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Neustrelitz was the capital of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, one of the smallest German states, which ceased to exist in November 1918 when the last grand duke abdicated. This note was issued by the municipal council — the Rat — in the chaotic months that followed, when small-denomination coinage had essentially vanished from circulation and hundreds of German towns resorted to printing their own emergency Kleingeld. Neustrelitz was simply one among thousands.
The Grabowski-Mehl reference places it in well-documented Notgeld territory. Nothing suggests unusual scarcity or a particularly short print run, though smaller Mecklenburg issues do thin out in collector holdings outside the German market.