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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Boizenburg (City of Boizenburg) |
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| Size | 75 × 55 mm |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note carries a hand-drawn vignette in an Art Nouveau cartouche, rendered in dark ink on a cream ground with swirling guilloche-style border ornaments, showing two dockworkers hauling ropes along a quayside with a steamship in the background. A Low German dialect motto runs in a banner beneath the vignette. The lower half is divided into a dark panel bearing the large numeral '25' with 'Pfg' below it at centre, flanked on the left by the validity text and on the right by the issuing authority legend; a facsimile signature appears at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark green and ochre on cream paper stock, with the denomination numerals '25 Pfg' repeated at left and right in bold Art Nouveau lettering. A large oval cartouche at centre contains a detailed pen-and-ink vignette of a historic watermill with its wheel reflected in the millpond, surrounded by trees. The issuer name 'Boizenburg' is set in large display type along the lower margin, with two diagonal ribbon banners in ochre reading 'Reutergeld' and 'der Stadt'. The designer's name 'Richard Zscheked' appears in manuscript in the upper right corner. |
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Boizenburg's 25 Pfennig notgeld was designed by Richard Zscheked, a name that recurs across several northern German municipal issues of the early 1920s — suggesting he worked as something of a regional specialist in the cottage industry of emergency municipal currency that flourished when the Reichsbank could not supply small denomination coins in sufficient quantity. Boizenburg, a small town on the Elbe in Mecklenburg, issued its own notgeld like hundreds of other German municipalities caught short during the postwar coinage famine.
Paper notgeld of this type was produced in enormous quantities and often redeemed and destroyed within months, which paradoxically makes certain town-specific issues difficult to locate today.