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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Linz am Rhein (City of Linz am Rhein) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears a central panoramic vignette of Linz am Rhein as seen from the Rhine, with a paddle steamer flying a flag in the foreground and the hillside town with its church steeples and the twin-columned monument on the hilltop behind. The vignette is framed by a fine guilloche border with a repeating diamond-pattern underprint covering the entire face. A decorative dot-and-dash outer border encloses the composition on all four sides. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries the denomination and issuing authority text centered within a guilloche underprint field, surrounded by the same diamond-pattern background and decorative border as the obverse. The typeset inscription states the note's face value of 25 Pfennig and references the authorizing municipality, with the date of issue and validity conditions presented in letterpress. |
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Linz am Rhein is a small Rhenish town with a population that barely exceeded a few thousand in 1920, yet like hundreds of other German municipalities that year, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to relieve an acute shortage of small-denomination coins. The Reichsbank had effectively stopped supplying fractional coinage as postwar metal costs made low-value coin production economically irrational. Local authorities filled the gap themselves.
M. Dumont Schauberg, a Cologne printing house with deep roots in the regional press trade, produced enormous volumes of municipal Notgeld for Rhenish towns during this period — an assembly-line operation that kept per-unit costs low enough for tiny issuers like Linz to participate.