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25 Pfennig - Bremen

Issuer Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
Year 1921
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Weight 2.8 g
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Obverse script Latin (Fraktur blackletter)
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Bremen issued its own subsidiary coinage in 1921 under the emergency money provisions that allowed German states and municipalities to fill the vacuum left by chronic coin shortages in the postwar years. The zinc composition reflects wartime and postwar metal economics — copper and nickel were still being rationed or redirected, and zinc was among the cheapest workable alternatives available to smaller minting authorities.

The Funck reference places this among the catalogued Notgeld coinage of the period, though Bremen's issues carried genuine legal tender status locally rather than the purely scrip character of paper Notgeld.