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.
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.