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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreis Wittlich (District of Wittlich) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | KREIS WITTLICH 25 Pfennig Dieser Gutschein wird vom Kreise Wittlich durch die Kreiskommunalkasse in Zahlung genommen. Der allgemeine Einlösungstermin tritt drei Monate nach vorheriger Bekanntgabe im Wittlicher Kreisblatt ein. Der Kreisausschuß: Wittlich, den 15. 9. 1919 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a warm brown tone and centres on an oval vignette, framed by a beaded border and delicate guilloche work, presenting a scenic view of the ruined Abtei Himmerod with its partially collapsed Gothic tower and Baroque façade set against a hilly landscape. The denomination numeral '25' appears in bold script within circular guilloche medallions at both the left and right margins. The printer's imprint 'Carl Schleicher & Schüll Düren' is lettered along the lower border. |
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Kreis Wittlich issued this note in 1919 as part of the enormous wave of Kleingeldersatz — emergency small-change substitutes — that flooded Germany after the war left official coinage effectively absent from everyday transactions. District-level issuers like Wittlich had no formal monetary authority; the practice was tolerated rather than sanctioned, and the Reichsbank periodically threatened crackdowns that rarely materialized.
Carl Schleicher & Schüll in Düren supplied a large proportion of the Rhineland's Notgeld output during this period, which means the paper stock and print quality here are more consistent than notes produced by municipal printers improvising with whatever was on hand.