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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Recklinghausen (City of Recklinghausen) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in green on a wavy-line guilloche underprint that fills the field. A central oval vignette presents a detailed letterpress view of the Recklinghausen Rathaus (town hall), a multi-storey Neo-Renaissance building with a prominent clock tower. The numeral '25' appears in each of the four corners within square cartouches, with no additional text. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 25 25 25 |
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Recklinghausen's 1917 Notgeld issue came out of the same wartime necessity that forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own small-denomination notes when imperial coinage disappeared into hoarding and metal drives. The Reichsbank couldn't keep pace with demand for fractional currency, so city administrations were left to fill the gap with whatever local printing capacity they had. These municipal issues had no formal backing beyond the city's own creditworthiness — a precarious promise in the fourth year of a losing war.