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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Recklinghausen (City of Recklinghausen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress note on cream paper with an overall fine guilloche underprint filling the field. The denomination numeral '25' appears in large Fraktur-style type at left and right flanking the central text block, which carries the serial number in bold numerals above the issue designation 'VII. Ausgabe'. A circular blue municipal seal of Recklinghausen is applied at lower left, with the date 'Recklinghausen, den 1. Dezember 1920' and a manuscript signature of the Oberbürgermeister to the lower right. The note is enclosed within a decorative typographic border with foliate corner ornaments. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green on cream paper, the reverse centres on an oval vignette of a large Neo-Renaissance civic building — likely the Recklinghausen Rathaus — rendered in fine line engraving and framed by a lace-pattern guilloche border. Flanking the central vignette at left and right are two circular medallions, each carrying the numeral '25' in bold white figures against a solid dark green ground within a guilloche rosette surround. The overall background is covered with a fine wavy-line guilloche pattern. |
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Recklinghausen's 1920 notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — by this point, the Reichsbank had largely accepted that smaller denominations had to be handled locally, and hundreds of German towns were producing their own paper to fill the gap left by hoarded coins. Recklinghausen, sitting at the northern edge of the Ruhr coalfield, was an industrial municipality with enough civic infrastructure to manage a credible issue but no particular printing tradition of its own.
The 25 Pfennig denomination was among the most actively circulated in daily transactions during the inflation run-up, which means survivors in clean condition are proportionally rarer than larger face values that were saved rather than spent.