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25 Pfennig Calau
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Calau |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gut für 25 Pfennig nur im Verkehr in Calau, N.-L. Gilt bis 31. Dezember 1918 Calau N-L, den 1. Mai 1917. Der Magistrat: Köhne Bürgermeister. |
| Reverse description | Printed in blue-green on a fine honeycomb guilloche underprint, the reverse is dominated by a large central circular seal of the Kreisstadt Calau N.L., enclosing a stylised castle with twin towers over a crenellated wall. The printer's imprint appears in small type along the bottom margin. |
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Calau is a small town in Lower Lusatia, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1917, it issued Notgeld to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage hoarded by a wartime public. Julius Fiedler Nachf. in Grünberg, Silesia was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist security firm — which is exactly what you'd expect for a low-value emergency issue commissioned in haste by a town administration with no experience procuring currency.
Bürgermeister Köhne's signature appears as the sole authorizing credential. No countersignature, no treasury stamp protocol.