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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss Prüm (District Committee of Prüm) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 Pfennig Dieser Gutschein wird vom Kreise Prüm durch die Kreisgemeindekasse in Zahlung genommen. Die Einlösungsfrist, nach welcher der Gutschein seine Gültigkeit verliert, wird 3 Monate vorher im amtlichen Kreisblatt veröffentlicht. Prüm, 6. Dez. 1920. Der Kreisausschuß: Landrat. KREIS PRÜM |
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| Reverse lettering | Ruine Schönecken Schleicher & Schüll Düren |
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Prüm is a small town in the Eifel region of what was then the Rhineland, and this note is a product of the Notgeld wave that followed the near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage circulation in Germany after World War One. The Kreisausschuss — the district administrative committee — was not a bank, and issuing currency was not its mandate. Necessity overrode that.
Carl Schleicher & Schüll were primarily known as filter paper manufacturers in Düren, but the firm printed a substantial volume of Kleingeldersatz for municipal and district issuers across the Rhineland during this period. The connection between industrial paper production and emergency currency printing was a practical one.