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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Eschweiler (City of Eschweiler) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Eschweiler Gutschein über den Betrag von Fünfundzwanzig Pfg. Dieser Schein wird von allen städtisch. Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in den hiesigen Zeitungen. Eschweiler, 1. November 1918. Der Bürgermeister: |
| Reverse description | Plain brown letterpress-printed reverse on unadorned paper, enclosed within a simple rectangular frame composed of horizontal bands of geometric guilloche ornament at top and bottom and plain ruled vertical side strips, with the numeral '25' repeated in each of the four corner squares. The central field bears a two-line German proverb in Gothic script. A blue circular administrative stamp is visible over the lower portion of the design. |
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Eschweiler's 1918 emergency issue belongs to the first wave of German municipal Notgeld, produced as small-denomination coins vanished from circulation almost entirely — hoarded by the public and pulled into wartime metal requisitions simultaneously. The city, heavily dependent on its coal-mining and metalworking industries, had particular need for low-denomination transactional currency to keep daily commerce moving among a working-class population paid in small amounts.
Municipal Notgeld of this period was typically printed locally on whatever paper stock was available, quality varying considerably. Eschweiler's 1918 issues were short-lived by design — intended to circulate only until the Reichsbank could restore adequate coin supply, a restoration that, given what followed in 1919–1923, never really came.