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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeindekasse Dassow (Municipality of Dassow) |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Light blue guilloche underprint covers the entire note within a plain rectangular border. The word 'Notgeld' is rendered in large bold red Fraktur script across the upper half, with 'Dassow' in matching script below, bisected by a thick horizontal black band. At lower right, the denomination '25 Pfg' appears in yellow and blue within a black oval cartouche. At lower left, a text panel in blue script states the validity clause and redeemability at the Gemeindekasse Dassow, with two manuscript signatures below attributed to the Orts-Vorstand. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 Pfennig De Fischer führt ut bi Storm un bi Still De fängt vel, de fängt wenig wie Gott dat will Notgeld Dassow i.M. GEBRÜDER BORCHERS G.M.B.H. LÜBECK |
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Dassow is a small town on the Trave estuary in Mecklenburg, just inland from Lübeck — which explains the printer. Gebrüder Borchers in Lübeck supplied emergency currency to numerous municipalities across the region during the Kleingeldnot of the early 1920s, when coin shortages and runaway inflation made small-denomination Notgeld a practical necessity rather than a collector's novelty. A Gemeindekasse issue — from the municipal treasury directly, not a savings bank or commercial house — suggests Dassow had neither the administrative infrastructure nor the budget to commission anything elaborate.
Borchers produced utilitarian, functional notes for this kind of client. No artistic ambition, no local imagery calculated for the collector trade that was by then driving much Notgeld production elsewhere.