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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Geldern (City of Geldern) |
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| Year | 1919-1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT GELDERN Für diesen Gutschein zahlen alle Städt. Kassen 25 Pfennig. Geldern, den 7. Mai 1920. Der Bürgermeister: CARL VON EGMOND HERZOG VON GELDERN +1538. |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents the heraldic arms of Geldern at left within a Gothic-arched vignette: a crowned tower and gate above a rampant lion on a divided shield, with floral ornaments at the base and the town name 'GELDERN' in a banderole below. At upper right, the denomination '25' appears in an oval frame flanked by 'Pfg.' on each side, with decorative foliate scrollwork. The central field carries a multi-line legal text in German explaining the note's validity as Notgeld, and at the base a red serial number is printed in large figures; the whole is enclosed by a beaded border with year-date underprint. |
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Geldern's 25 Pfennig notgeld belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany following the collapse of the imperial economy in 1918. The Reichsbank had essentially abandoned small denomination coinage — metal was either hoarded or had been consumed by the war effort — leaving cities and towns to print their own stopgaps. Geldern, a small administrative town in the Lower Rhine, did what hundreds of other municipalities did: authorized the Bürgermeister to sign off on locally printed scrip.
The Dr. Werners signature identifies the issuing official but little documentary evidence exists on the specific print run quantities for this series.