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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Uetersen (City of Uetersen) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note is occupied by a detailed letterpress vignette of a parkland scene with a church tower and surrounding trees, rendered in a fine woodcut-like style against a light blue underprint. The lower register carries the city arms of Uetersen in cartouche form at both left and right flanks, with the denomination inscription and a Low German dialect motto in the central text panel. Four manuscript signatures appear below the text, arranged in two columns. |
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| Reverse description | The upper two-thirds of the reverse present a broad panoramic vignette of an industrial harbour scene with factory chimneys, sailing vessels, and waterway infrastructure, printed in dark tones over a pale blue underprint with a zigzag border frame. The denomination numeral '25' appears in bold letterpress at each of the four corners alongside the text 'PFENNIG'. The lower register features a whimsical underprint vignette of two pigs in silhouette, flanked by the repeated denomination numerals '25 PFENNIG' in each corner. |
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Uetersen is a small town in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of German municipalities it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Reichsbank's metal coinage had effectively vanished from circulation by 1917, hoarded or melted, and local authorities stepped in to fill the gap with paper fractions. Stadt Uetersen's 25 Pfennig falls into this category: a municipal stopgap, not a bank instrument.
The DeNG reference places it firmly within the notgeld documentation framework established by Arnold/Kühn.