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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadtrat Münnerstadt |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The centre of the note is occupied by a pointed oval cartouche with a pink guilloche border enclosing the polychrome arms of Münnerstadt — a crenellated city gate with two towers above an open gateway, and a swan in the upper field. The denomination numeral '25' appears in large Gothic script at upper left and upper right, with 'Pfennig' in matching script below on each side. The issue date and validity period are printed in the lower corners flanking a manuscript authorisation signature above the designation 'Stadtrat'. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Münnerstadt 25 Pfennig 25 Pfennig Stadtrat Ausgegeben 24. Dez. 1920 gültig bis 1. Jan 1925 |
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Münnerstadt is a small Franconian market town, and like hundreds of similar municipalities across Germany in 1920, its Stadtrat issued low-denomination Notgeld to address the chronic shortage of small change that followed the First World War. The 25 Pfennig was the workhorse denomination of this emergency coinage wave — practical, unglamorous, and produced in enormous quantities by local printers across the country.
Münnerstadt's series is not among the rarities collectors chase. Most surviving examples were preserved by collectors at the time of issue, not salvaged from circulation.