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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Fürstenberg in Mecklenburg (Rat der Stadt Fürstenberg i. M.) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Olive-yellow guilloche underprint covers the entire field, over which a large ornate cartouche with foliate scroll work frames a central oval vignette of a Baroque manor house set amid trees, rendered in fine line engraving. The denomination numeral '25' appears at the top of the cartouche in rose-red letterpress, flanked by the inscription 'Reuter Geld' arching across the upper scroll band. The lower portion of the cartouche carries the legend 'der Stadt Fürstenberg i/M.' in flowing script, identifying this as so-called Reuter-Geld issued by the town. |
| Reverse lettering | Reuter Geld 25 der Stadt Fürstenberg i/M. |
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Fürstenberg an der Havel sits in what was then the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and like hundreds of small German municipalities, the town council resorted to issuing its own fractional Kleingeld during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany from roughly 1916 onward. The Reichsbank's metal was going into shell casings, not coinage, and small transactions became genuinely difficult to complete without locally-issued substitutes.
Municipal 25 Pfennig notes of this type were typically printed in very small quantities and redeemed quickly once the crisis eased — survival rates are low not because of destruction but simply because they were used hard and discarded.