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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss Lippstadt (District Committee of Lippstadt) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on plain paper and divided into three side-by-side vignette panels enclosed within a decorative wavy border with dot ornaments. The left panel presents a panoramic line-art view of a village with a church steeple captioned "KREIS ARNSBERG (BELECKE)"; the centre panel shows two figures in regional folk costume at a gate with the dialect captions "Sall ick?" and "Kumm rüwer!"; the right panel illustrates a church with an onion dome and half-timbered buildings captioned "KREIS LIPPSTADT (SUTTROP)". Denomination numerals "25" appear in shield-shaped cartouches at the upper-left and upper-right corners. |
| Reverse lettering | KREIS ARNSBERG (BELECKE) Sall ick? Kumm rüwer! KREIS LIPPSTADT (SUTTROP) 25 25 |
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Lippstadt's 1920 Pfennig notgeld belongs to the second wave of municipal emergency money that flooded Germany after the Reichsbank's coin-hoarding crisis of 1919–1920. The Kreisausschuss — the administrative body of the rural district, distinct from the town itself — issued small-denomination paper to plug the gap left by vanishing bronze and aluminum coinage, which was being systematically pulled from circulation and melted or saved.
District-level issuers like this one are less common than municipal or commercial house issues; the Kreisausschuss had narrower distribution than a city treasury, which typically kept quantities low.