25 Pfennig

Rinteln's 25 Pfennig notgeld of 1920 was one of thousands of emergency municipal issues that flooded Germany following the post-WWI coin shortage — but this series has a footnote worth knowing. Rudolf Hillebrecht, credited here as designer, later became the chief city planner of Hanover and was responsible for much of that city's controversial postwar reconstruction in the 1950s. His work on provincial notgeld was early commercial art, not a career focus, but the connection is an odd one.

Edler & Krische were a Hanover printing firm with a solid notgeld output in this period. The watermarked paper was a common specification for issues intended to deter forgery, though on low-denomination municipal scrip the practical deterrent value was negligible.