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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Hagenow (City of Hagenow) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | De Eiken un Bäuken, de wölroten Heven, unner ehren Schatten in deipe Gedanken sitt un hei de Minschen tau fick mit ehre Kron unner den lag de Iröd so still, as wenn Einer dorup sinnt, wat Allens Gauden dauhn will 25 Pfg Dieser Schein hat Gültigkeit für den Geldverkehr innerhalb der Stadtgemeinde bis zum 30. April 1922 Der Rat: Dr. Sturm Kienche Der Stadtverordn.-Vorsteh.: Mühlstädt |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 Pfg Reutergeld der Stadt Hagenow |
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Hagenow's 25 Pfennig notgeld belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency money issued across Germany between 1916 and the early 1920s, when coin shortages — driven first by wartime metal requisitioning, then by postwar economic chaos — forced thousands of towns to print their own fractional currency. Hagenow, a small market town in Mecklenburg, was among the more modest issuers, producing pieces with limited regional distribution that rarely traveled far beyond local commerce.
Collector demand for Mecklenburg notgeld has historically been thin compared to the heavily thematized issues from larger municipalities, which keeps examples from Hagenow underrepresented in major holdings.