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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Oranienbaum (City of Oranienbaum) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD · DER · STADT 25 Pf Gutschein unter Gewähr der Stadt ORANIENBAUM i.Anh. Gültig bis 31. März 1922. ORANIENBAUM i. Anh. Buchdruckerei Oranienbaum Der Stadtv.-Voret. Der Magistrat |
| Reverse description | Cream-toned note printed in dark olive-green with a large central vignette rendered in a fine line-engraving style, showing a horse-drawn cart on a road before the Orangerie building in Oranienbaum, surrounded by mature trees; the caption 'Orangerie' appears in the upper right of the vignette. The same green ornamental vertical borders as the obverse frame both lateral edges, with the denomination numeral '25' at each corner. |
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Oranienbaum — now Oranienbaum-Wörlitz, Saxony-Anhalt — issued this Notgeld note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany from 1916 onward, when hoarding stripped coins from everyday commerce faster than the Reichsbank could respond. Thousands of German municipalities printed their own emergency fractions, and the vast majority were handled by local print shops with no particular expertise in security printing. The Buchdruckerei Oranienbaum was exactly that: a town printer producing functional scrip for local use, not a specialist currency house.
The P#1024 series suffix variants (.1 and .2) typically indicate minor typographic or paper differences between print runs rather than distinct issues.