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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Swakopmunder Buchhandlung |
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| Year | 1916-1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset design on cream paper with a dashed rectangular border. The word "Gutschein" appears at upper left in red letterpress, with "NUMMER" and a handwritten serial number at upper right. A large guilloche underprint numeral "25" anchors the centre, above the bold denomination legend "Fünfundzwanzig Pf." and the issuer name "Swakopmunder Buchhandlung, Ges. m. b. H., Swakopmund." |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse on aged cream paper, bearing only a partial violet handstamp in the lower right corner. No vignette, text, or ornamental elements are present. |
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Swakopmunder Buchhandlung — literally the Swakopmund Bookshop — was a retail stationer and bookseller, not a financial institution. It issued this note during the period when German South West Africa was already under South African military occupation following the territory's surrender in July 1915. The colonial administration had collapsed, German currency supplies had dried up, and local businesses filled the gap with privately printed Notgeld.
The bookshop had the materials and the press to do it. That practical accident is why a stationer appears as an issuing authority on a circulating banknote.