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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Herford (City of Herford) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Violet letterpress on cream paper within a fine dotted border. The central vignette presents a dynamic equestrian statue of Widukind, Duke of the Saxons, shown mounted on a rearing horse and raising a lance, rendered in detailed line engraving. The denomination numeral '20' appears in large figures at left and right. In the upper corners are the heraldic coat of arms of Herford, and in the lower corners two circular seals inscribed 'Siegel der Stadt Herford'. |
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| Protection description | Zigzag lines |
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Herford's 1920 Notgeld issues belong to the second wave of municipal emergency currency — by this point German cities had been printing their own small-denomination scrip for nearly two years, filling the chronic shortage of low-value coinage that the Reichsbank simply could not address at scale. The Stadt Herford series is catalogued under both Grabowski and Vadelow references, which occasionally diverge on variety classification; the "b" suffix in Gra#H28.6b typically denotes a paper stock or watermark variant within the same design run.
The watermark is the detail worth noting — relatively few Kleingeldscheine at this denomination bothered with it, and its presence here suggests the municipality used commercially watermarked stock rather than commissioning a bespoke security paper.