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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Biedenkopf (Magistrat der Kreisstadt Biedenkopf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Mauve-printed central vignette of the Biedenkopf civic arms, a crenellated castle above a rampant lion, set within an ornate scrollwork cartouche. Denomination numeral 25 repeated in four corner medallions on a fine guilloche underprint. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 |
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Biedenkopf is a small market town in the Lahn valley of Hesse, and this 25 Pfennig note is a product of the notgeld wave that swept German municipal administrations between 1919 and 1921 — driven not by local banking ambition but by a genuine shortage of fractional coinage in the postwar economy. The Reichsbank simply could not keep small change in circulation fast enough, so thousands of towns printed their own.
The Magistrat series from Biedenkopf is not among the more elaborately produced issues of the period. The serial number is the only security feature, which was typical for smaller municipalities working with local printers on tight budgets.