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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Rheingaukreises |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by an intricate guilloche underprint in grey-blue covering the entire field, against which a continuous block of Fraktur text is set in black letterpress. A large decorative initial capital D in calligraphic style anchors the left margin of the text block, which sets out the conditions of acceptance and redemption of the voucher. |
| Reverse lettering | Dieser Gutschein wird von der Kreiskommunalkasse und allen Gemeindekassen im Rheingaukreise in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert die Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in den amtl. Blättern des Kreises. Der Rheingaukreis haftet für die Einlösung. GEBR. PARCUS MÜNCHEN |
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Rheingaukreis notgeld of this period came out of the severe coin shortage that gripped Germany from 1917 onward — hoarding of metal coinage, combined with wartime requisitioning of copper and nickel, forced district and municipal authorities to issue emergency small-denomination paper scrip with no central mandate and highly variable quality control. The Kreisausschuss, the elected administrative committee of the Rheingau district, had the legal standing to authorize such issues on behalf of the county.
Gebrüder Parcus in Munich handled a substantial volume of Bavarian and southwest German notgeld contracts during the war years, and their presswork is generally cleaner than many competing provincial printers of the period.