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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rat der Stadt Krakow i. M. (City Council of Krakow am See) |
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| Size | 75 × 52 mm |
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| Obverse description | Brown and salmon-toned Notgeld vignette in an expressionist woodcut style, dominated by a tall forest scene with a large tree trunk at centre and a bird perched among the branches to the upper left. To the left, a cartouche bears the validity inscription and issuer name, with two manuscript signatures below; the denomination '25 Pf.' appears in bold white numerals at the lower right. A curved panel at the base contains a six-line German verse in blackletter script. |
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| Reverse description | Brown and salmon-toned vignette in a bold graphic style, with two male workers manoeuvring a large wooden barrel atop a rooftop silhouette against an open sky, a chimney stack rising to the left. The large white denomination numeral '25' dominates the lower centre, beneath which the inscription 'PFENNIG / REUTERGELD / KRAKOW' is rendered in heavy block capitals against a dark ground. |
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Krakow am See is a small town in Mecklenburg, not the Polish city — a confusion that trips up collectors encountering this note for the first time. "i. M." stands for "in Mecklenburg," a necessary clarification the issuing council added precisely because the name overlap was already causing administrative headaches in the chaotic German notgeld period.
This is Kleingeldschein-era material, issued to address the acute small-change shortage that hit German municipalities hard between 1916 and 1922. The town's fiscal authority to issue was locally assumed rather than formally granted — typical of the decentralized emergency currency landscape that produced thousands of such pieces across the Reich.