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25 Pfennig - Wilhelm II Pattern
| Issuer | Germany (1871-1948) |
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| Year | 1908 |
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| Diameter | 22.99 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a bold, large-format numeral '25' occupying the upper field, rendered in a decorative Jugendstil-influenced style with scrolled terminals characteristic of the period. A horizontal bar below the numeral carries the denomination legend PFENNIG in capital letters. The date 1908 appears in the lower field beneath the bar. The entire design is enclosed within a rope border matching that of the obverse, with a plain inner field providing a clean background to the typographic composition. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Pattern coinage from the German Imperial period rarely surfaces with clean provenance, and this 1908 copper-nickel piece is no exception. The 25 Pfennig denomination was never adopted for circulation under Wilhelm II — the approved series ran 1, 2, 5, 10, and 25 Pfennig in nickel and iron, but proposals for revised denominations were floated repeatedly in the years before WWI as the Reichsbank wrestled with coin-hoarding behavior among the public.
Pattern status means this piece bypassed the Reichsmünzamt approval chain entirely.