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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Süderbrarup (Municipality of Süderbrarup) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a large central vignette set against a coloured map of the Schleswig-Holstein region, showing the North Sea (NORDSEE) to the south and the Baltic Sea (OSTSEE) to the north, with place names including Sonderburg, Glücksburg, Hadersleben, and Heide. Superimposed over the map is a dramatic allegorical scene of a white horse and rider ensnared by a large coiling green dragon, evoking the struggle over the Schleswig border territory. The denomination '25' appears in the upper left and lower right corners with 'PF.' at upper right and lower left; vertical side panels carry the inscriptions 'Ob schwer auch getroffen Deutschland wird leben,' and 'All unser Hoffen ist sein Erheben;'; the lower margin bears the validity clause and two manuscript signatures above the issuer designation 'GEMEINDEVORSTAND'. |
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| Reverse lettering | GEMEINDE SÜDERBRARUP DIE 14 PUNKTE SLESVIG PLEBISCIT 10 JAHR 25 PF. No 04242 |
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Süderbrarup is a small market town in Schleswig-Holstein, and this note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept German municipalities between 1917 and 1922 when imperial and Weimar central authorities could not supply enough small-denomination coinage to meet everyday needs. Thousands of German towns issued their own emergency pfennig notes during this period; Süderbrarup was one of the smaller issuers, which tends to mean lower original print runs and genuine scarcity rather than the collector-targeted overproduction that plagued larger city issues.
The DeNG reference placing it in the 1294 sequence confirms Schleswig classification within the standard notgeld cataloguing system.