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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Kolberg (Notgeld, Prussian Province of Pomerania) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in dark green on a pale green ground with a fine guilloche underprint, the obverse bears the denomination in large Fraktur script — 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig' — across the upper half, followed by the redemption text 'zahlt die Stadthauptkasse dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines' and the issue date 'Kolberg, den 1. März 1917.' At centre, the heraldic vignette of the City of Kolberg shows two flanking supporters framing a quartered municipal coat of arms, beneath the inscription 'Der Magistrat.' Two manuscript signatures appear in the lower left and right fields. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Kolberg issued Notgeld earlier than most Prussian municipalities — by mid-1917, the municipal authorities were already printing denominations to compensate for the near-total disappearance of low-value coins from circulation, hoarded by a public responding rationally to wartime metal shortages. The C.F. Post'sche Buchdruckerei was a local press, which kept the production entirely within the city — unusual only in that the watermark security feature suggests more deliberate anti-counterfeiting effort than most comparable small-town emergency issues of the same period bothered with.