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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Erlangen (City of Erlangen) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same pink-red tone with a matching guilloche underprint. A central oval vignette displays the Erlangen municipal coat of arms — an eagle on a shield — framed by decorative scrollwork and flanked by floral rosette ornaments in the upper corners. The denomination numerals '20' appear in matching rosette cartouches at lower left and right, with the word 'PFENNIG' in spaced capitals across the centre. A two-line notice of redemption conditions is set above the central vignette, and the printer's imprint 'JUNGE & SOHN ERLANGEN' appears at the foot of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Einziehung erfolgt einen Monat nach öffentlicher Bekanntmachung 20 PFENNIG 20 JUNGE & SOHN ERLANGEN |
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Erlangen's 20 Pfennig Notgeld from 1918 belongs to the first wave of German municipal emergency money, issued as small coins vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or consumed by wartime metal demands. Cities were left to improvise, and hundreds did exactly that, printing low-denomination paper to keep markets functioning at the street level.
Junge & Sohn was a local Erlangen printer, not a specialist banknote house, which shows in the workmanship. The city printed for its own immediate need rather than for any central coordination.