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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Emmendingen |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-tinted notgeld note with an ornamental guilloche underprint carrying the denomination numeral '20' in each corner. The central text, set in bold Fraktur typeface, reads 'Zwanzig Pfennig', surmounted by a roman-type header line reading 'Die Stadtkasse Emmendingen zahlt gegen diesen Gutschein'. Below the denomination, a dateline reading 'EMMENDINGEN, den 1. August 1917.' is followed by two manuscript signatures over the printed titles 'Bürgermeister' and 'Ratschreiber', beneath the collective designation 'Der Gemeinderat:'. |
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| Reverse description | Orange-toned reverse with an elaborate interlaced guilloche border enclosing a central vignette of the Emmendingen municipal coat of arms — a crowned shield charged with a diagonal band and a standing human figure — encircled by the legend 'STADTGEMEINDE EMMENDINGEN'. The denomination numeral '20' is repeated in each of the four corners within ornamental cartouches, and a serial number band appears beneath the arms vignette. |
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Emmendingen's municipal treasury issued this Kleingeldschein during the acute small-change shortage of 1917, when hoarding of metal coinage had stripped everyday transactions of anything below a Mark. Hundreds of German towns resorted to the same measure that year, but most contracted regional printers — Emmendingen appears to have handled production locally, which accounts for the relatively crude print quality seen across the series.
Municipal notgeld of this size and denomination was never intended to outlast the war, and redemption campaigns after 1918 destroyed the majority. Survivors are almost always from collector holdings assembled in the early 1920s.