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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Remscheid (City of Remscheid) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse lettering | STADT REMSCHEID 1917 |
| Signature(s) | Lohmann (Oberbürgermeister) |
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Remscheid's 1918 Notgeld issue arrived at a moment when small-denomination coinage had almost entirely vanished from German daily commerce — hoarded, melted, or simply unavailable as the war economy consumed metal. Municipal authorities across the Rhineland were left to paper over the gap themselves, literally. Remscheid, a steel and tool-manufacturing town in the Bergisches Land, would have felt that shortage acutely; its workers needed change for trams, canteens, and small purchases that no one could make without Pfennig-value instruments.
Oberbürgermeister Lohmann's signature lends the note its legal standing under local emergency authority rather than Reichsbank sanction.