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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Der Rat der Stadt Doberan (City Council of Bad Doberan) |
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| Designer(s) | Egon Tschirch |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on pale pink paper, the obverse is dominated by the large diagonal bold lettering 'STADT DOBERAN' set against a striped background, with 'NOTGELD DER' inscribed to the left and the denomination '25 Pf.' in large script at upper right. The legend 'DER RAT DER STADT DOBERAN' runs across the top, below which four handwritten manuscript signatures appear at upper left. At the foot of the note, validity text reads 'DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT 3 MONATE NACH BEKANNTMACHUNG', with the designer credit 'EGON TSCHIRCH' at lower left and printer imprint 'H.G. RAHTGENS, LÜBECK.' at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue and red on white paper in a bold Expressionist style, the reverse carries the large numeral '25' in white reserve dominating the right half, overlaid with a stylized bird vignette in blue. To the left, 'BAD DOBERAN' runs vertically alongside an ornamental staff or crozier motif in blue. The word 'NOTGELD' appears in block capitals along the top edge, and the designer's signature 'TSCHIRACH' is inscribed at lower left. |
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Bad Doberan's notgeld issues are among the more artistically deliberate of the early Weimar emergency currency run — Egon Tschirch, a Rostock-based painter and graphic artist with genuine regional standing, was commissioned rather than the job going to a generic commercial illustrator. H. G. Rahtgens of Lübeck handled the printing, a firm that took on considerable notgeld work from Mecklenburg municipalities during the 1920–1921 small-change crisis.
The DeNG reference places this within the first series for the city. Tschirch's involvement across multiple Mecklenburg notgeld commissions makes attribution here unambiguous.