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25 Pfennigs

Issuer Magistrat der Stadt Wollin
Year 1921
Type Local banknote
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Obverse description The obverse is printed in green and brown tones, framed by a bold geometric Art Nouveau border with stylised angular corner ornaments. A panoramic vignette occupies the upper portion, presenting a waterside view of Wollin with church spires, townhouses, and sailing vessels on the water beneath a sweeping sky. Below the vignette, the issuing authority inscription and a validity clause are set in bold blackletter type, with the serial number, date, and two manuscript signatures of the Magistrat appearing along the lower margin.
Obverse lettering NOTGELD
DER STADT WOLLIN
DAS NOTGELD VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIG-
KEIT EINEN MONAT NACH ERFOLG-
TER BEKANNTMACHUNG
WOLLIN, JUNI 1921
DER MAGISTRAT
OTTO LANG · WOLLIN
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Comments

Wollin — the Baltic island town known in German as Wollin, today Wolin in Poland — issued this note as part of the broad Notgeld wave that swept German municipalities in the early 1920s, when small-denomination coinage had effectively disappeared from circulation. The Magistrat series printed by Otto Lang, a local printer operating within the town itself, is among the more provincially produced examples of the type: no specialist security printer, no elaborate engraving contract.

The DeNG 2#1453.1-1/3 reference indicates three known variants within this denomination, likely distinguished by minor typographic or paper differences rather than separate issue dates.

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