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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreissparkasse Simmern |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The left portion of the note carries a composite vignette of the Kreis Simmern coat of arms — a quartered shield incorporating a lion, the Bavarian lozenges, a chequered field, and three crowns — surmounted by a circular inscription reading KREIS SIMMERN, with the denomination numeral 25 in a dark panel below. To the right, the face value GUTSCHEIN ÜBER 25 PFENNIG is set in bold letterpress, followed by the validity clause, the date 19. September 1919, a manuscript signature of the deputy Landrat, a red serial number, and the guarantee text of the Kreissparkasse Simmern. The overall background carries a repeated typographic underprint of KREIS SIMMERN. |
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| Reverse lettering | Schinderhannes Turm Simmern 25 25 Schleicher & Schüll Duren |
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Kreissparkasse Simmern was a district savings bank in the Hunsrück region of the Rhineland, and this 25 Pfennig note is a product of the Notgeld wave that flooded Germany in 1919 as small-denomination coins vanished from circulation entirely. Postwar hoarding and metal shortages made fractional coinage functionally extinct in many municipalities, forcing local governments and savings institutions to print their own emergency issues.
Carl Schleicher & Schüll were primarily known as a filter paper manufacturer in Düren — that they also ran a printing operation capable of producing passable Notgeld is a minor industrial curiosity of the period.