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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Paderborn (City of Paderborn) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Blue-grey and tan letterpress design with an elaborate Art Nouveau scrollwork border framing the central vignette of a knight on horseback within a circular medallion, flanked by the denomination numeral '25' in a roundel at left and the abbreviation 'Pfg.' in a roundel at right. Below the central vignette, a decorative cartouche in Gothic script bears the validity notice and the issue date 'Paderborn, den 1. März 1920,' followed by a manuscript mayoral signature above the printed legend 'Der Magistrat.' The header panel carries the full issuer title 'NOTGELD DER STADT PADERBORN' in bold letterpress, with the printer's imprint 'SCHWARZ, LINDENBERG/ALLGÄU' at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Blue-grey and tan letterpress design with a central mandorla-shaped vignette of Saint Liborius in bishop's vestments and mitre, holding a crozier and a book, set against an ornate scrollwork field. The denomination '25' appears in a diamond lozenge at left and 'Pfg.' in a matching lozenge at right. The horizontal legend 'NOTGELD DER STADT' runs above the central vignette and 'PADERBORN IN WESTFALEN' below it, while a continuous Gothic verse runs along all four outer margins of the note. The designer's imprint 'JOS. DOMINICUS. 1920. PADERBORN' appears at lower left. |
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Paderborn's 25 Pfennig notgeld of 1920 is one of thousands of municipal emergency issues that flooded Germany following the post-WWI coin shortage — the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough small change to meet everyday demand. What distinguishes one notgeld town issue from another is often the printer, and J. Adolf Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu was a minor regional house that handled a scatter of Bavarian and Westphalian municipal contracts during this period, not one of the major Leipzig or Berlin firms dominating the bulk runs.
Lindenberg printing a note payable in Paderborn — some 500 kilometers north — was entirely unremarkable for the notgeld trade; municipalities contracted whoever quoted cheapest or delivered fastest.