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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Emmerich (City of Emmerich) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The note is set against a fine guilloche underprint in light grey-green. The denomination numeral '25' appears in decorative red and black letterpress cartouches at the upper left and right corners, flanking the central text block. The legend 'Pfennig / Gutschein der Stadt / EMMERICH' is rendered in bold Gothic blackletter script, with the date 'Emmerich, d. 1. Dezember 1920' and payability clause below; a facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister appears at lower right. The printer's imprint 'GEBR. PARCUS, MÜNCHEN.' is present at the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 EMMERICH 25 Torhorst |
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Emmerich's 1920 notgeld series was printed by Gebrüder Parcus of Munich, a firm that handled a substantial share of the Rhineland municipal emergency currency work during the postwar inflation spiral. Parcus was known for competent, clean lithographic production — not prestige work, but reliable volume output at a moment when hundreds of German municipalities were scrambling simultaneously to cover small-denomination shortages left by the collapse of regular coin circulation after 1918.
The designer credited is Torhorst, a local connection suggesting Emmerich commissioned the artwork regionally before sending plates south to Munich for printing — a common enough arrangement, though it occasionally introduced registration inconsistencies between the design proof and the finished note.