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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Elberfeld (City of Elberfeld) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark green on plain paper with a fine wavy-line guilloche background filling the entire field. The denomination 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig' is inscribed in a bold banner across the top, while two large numerals '25' occupy symmetrical oval cartouches at left and right, each surrounded by a scalloped decorative border. The central panel carries the municipal coat of arms of Elberfeld — a rampant lion on a divided shield surmounted by a crenellated crown — and the inscription 'Stadt Elberfeld' runs along the lower banner. |
| Reverse lettering | Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig 25 25 Stadt Elberfeld |
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Elberfeld issued this note in 1919 as Notgeld — emergency municipal currency printed to address the chronic small-change shortage that plagued German cities in the immediate postwar period. The Reichsbank had effectively stopped supplying low-denomination coinage, forcing hundreds of municipalities to commission their own interim scrip. Elberfeld was among the more industrialized Wuppertal valley cities, and its commercial demands made the shortage particularly acute.
Elberfeld ceased to exist as an independent municipality in 1929, absorbed into the newly consolidated city of Wuppertal.