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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Düsseldorf (City of Düsseldorf) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown and ochre on cream paper, framed by a double-ruled border with a geometric guilloche underprint along the lower register. The denomination numerals '25' appear in large bold letterpress in the left and right fields, each above the word 'PFENNIG'. At centre, a circular vignette carries the heraldic lion of Düsseldorf rendered in ochre. A text block in German script below states the validity of the note at all city cashiers until 31 March 1920, with the date 'Düsseldorf, den 1. Dezember 1918' and the signature designation 'Der Oberbürgermeister' at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown and ochre on cream paper within a double-ruled border, with a dense concentric-circle guilloche pattern covering the entire field as underprint. The denomination numerals '25' are repeated in each corner in ochre. The spelled-out value 'FÜNF UNDZWANZIG PFENNIG' is set in large bold letterpress at centre, with a red serial number printed below it. |
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Düsseldorf's 1918 25 Pfennig Notgeld was issued as the Reichsbank's coin supply collapsed under wartime metal requisitioning — zinc, nickel, and copper were pulled for shell casings, leaving municipal authorities scrambling to fill the gap with emergency paper. Cities across Germany issued their own small-denomination notes with minimal central oversight, which is why the quality, format, and lifespan of these issues varied so dramatically from one town to the next.
Düsseldorf's wartime Notgeld issues were functional stopgaps, not collectibles — though the postwar inflation series that followed became a different matter entirely.