25 Pfennigs

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.