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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Tuchel |
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| Year | 1917-1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-pink and cream Notgeld note with vertical red stripe underprint across the field. The upper border contains two rectangular panels bearing the denomination '25 Pf.' flanking a central panel with the validity inscription 'Gültig bis 31. Dez. 1920'. A large overprinted numeral '25' in red occupies the centre of the note, overlaid by the circular official seal of the Magistrat der Stadt Tuchel bearing a standing ecclesiastical figure. Two manuscript signatures appear to the left and right of the seal, with the serial number prefixed 'No.' printed along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 Pf. Gültig bis 31. Dez. 1920 Gutschein der Stadt Tuchel über 25 Pf. Tuchel Wpr., den 1. April 1919. Der Magistrat. MAGISTRAT DER STADT TUCHEL No. |
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Tuchel — now Tuchola in northern Poland — was a small Prussian town caught between two administrative worlds when this note circulated. The Magistrat issued these emergency pfennig notes during the acute small-change shortage that gripped German municipalities from roughly 1916 onward, a crisis driven by the hoarding and melting of base-metal coins as the war economy devoured metal of every kind.
The issuing window spans 1917–1919, which means some examples would have circulated under the German Empire and others under the early Weimar Republic — a political discontinuity the notes themselves make no acknowledgment of.