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25 Pfennig

Issuer Stadt Crefeld (City of Krefeld)
Year 1919
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Shape Rectangular
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Obverse lettering GUTSCHEIN ÜBER
25
PFENNIG
STADT CREFELD
DIESER GUTSCHEIN WIRD BIS SPÄTESTENS 31. MÄRZ 1922 BEI ALLEN KASSEN DER STADT CREFELD ANGENOMMEN
GÜLTIG BIS 31. MÄRZ 1922
CREFELD, DEN 6. NOVEMBER 1919
DER OBERBÜRGERMEISTER
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STADT CREFELD
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Krefeld's notgeld program in 1919 was typical of the Rhineland's postwar small-change crisis, when coin hoarding and metal shortages left municipal governments scrambling to fill the void. Worms & Lüthgen, a local Crefeld printing house, handled production — keeping the job firmly within the city rather than routing it through Leipzig or Berlin as many larger municipalities did.

The spelling discrepancy between the issuer name ("Crefeld") and the modern city name (Krefeld) reflects the official renaming that had occurred just years earlier, in 1916. Some notgeld from this series retains the old form, others the new — worth noting when cataloging multiples.

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