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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Limburg an der Lahn (City of Limburg an der Lahn) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Printer | C. Naumann's Druckerei (Carl Naumann's Print Shop), Frankfurt am Main |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue letterpress Notgeld on white paper, enclosed within an ornate rectangular border with decorative corner pieces bearing the numeral 25. The city name 'Stadt Limburg a.d. Lahn' is set in Gothic blackletter type at the top, flanking a central heraldic shield vignette. The denomination '25 Pfennig 25' is printed in large bold Gothic characters across the centre, with a red serial number below; the lower portion carries the redemption text in smaller Gothic script, dated Limburg, 1 November 1918, and signed by the Bürgermeister on behalf of Der Magistrat. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 25 25 25 Stadt Limburg a.d. Lahn 25 Pfennig 25 No. Dieser Gutschein behält seine Gültigkeit bis 3 Monate nach öffentlicher Auskündigung in den Limburger Tageszeitungen. Die Scheine werden von der Stadtkasse eingelöst. Limburg den 1. November 1918 DER MAGISTRAT: Bürgermeister. |
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Limburg's 1918 Notgeld issue was one of thousands of municipal emergency currency schemes that proliferated across Germany as the imperial government lost control of small-denomination coin supply — hoarding and metal requisitioning had gutted circulation by mid-war. Cities, towns, and even individual businesses were legally permitted to fill the gap themselves, which produced an extraordinary range of local printing quality. Naumann's Frankfurt shop was a competent commercial printer, not a specialist security printer, which is exactly what most Notgeld commissioners could afford.
Assmann's designer credit is unusually specific for a note of this type and value — most Kleingeldscheine at this level went uncredited.