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20 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Rheingaukreises (District Executive Committee of the Rheingau District) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Printer | Gebrüder Parcus, Munich, Germany |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears a central vignette of the Germania statue crowning the Niederwald Monument, a celebrated nationalist landmark overlooking the Rhine valley. The district name RHEINGAUKREIS appears in letterpress, flanked by the denomination stated as Zwanzig Pfennig, with the issuing authority, place of issue (Rüdesheim), and date of 26 June 1917 printed below in Fraktur script. The overall layout is austere and text-driven, consistent with wartime Notgeld emergency issue conventions. |
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| Reverse lettering | Dieser Gutschein wird von der Kreiskommunalkasse und allen Gemeindekassen im Rheingaukreis in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert die Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in den amtl. Blättern des Kreises. Der Rheingaukreis haftet für die Einlösung. (Translation: This voucher is accepted by the district communal treasury and all municipal treasuries in the Rheingau district. It expires one month after its cancellation in the official gazette of the district. The Rheingau district is liable for its redemption.) |
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Rheingau District notgeld from the first wave of municipal paper emergency issues, when chronic small-coin shortages — driven by wartime metal requisitioning — forced local administrations across Germany to print their own fractional currency. The Kreisausschuss had no standing authority to issue money; it did so under a general tolerance from Prussian administrative bodies, not formal Reichsbank sanction.
Gebrüder Parcus of Munich was among the most prolific notgeld printers of the period, supplying dozens of district and municipal clients simultaneously. Their production quality was reliable, which is why so many of their pieces survived in collector hands rather than wearing out in circulation.