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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Speicher (Municipality of Speicher) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black on plain paper, the reverse is enclosed by a dotted rectangular border with the numeral '25' repeated in small circular rosettes at each corner. A bold central diamond-shaped cartouche carries the numeral '25' at top, followed by 'PFENNIG.', 'SPEICHER', and 'EIFEL' in large letterpress type, flanked above by two decorative urn motifs, with horizontal ruling filling the background within the frame. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 PFENNIG. SPEICHER EIFEL |
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Speicher is a small municipality in the Eifel region of Rhineland-Palatinate, and this 25 Pfennig note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Germany between 1919 and 1922. With the Reichsbank unable to supply adequate small-denomination coinage — hoarded, melted, or simply absent from circulation — thousands of towns issued their own emergency paper. Speicher was one of the smaller communities to do so, which generally means lower print runs and, consequently, harder survival today.