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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bad Godesberg (Municipality of Bad Godesberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 85 × 50 mm |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld voucher printed in green on cream paper, with a fine guilloche underprint forming the background. The issuing authority "BAD GODESBERG a/Rhein" is set in bold letterpress at the top, followed by the legend "Gutschein über" flanked by ornamental floral borders, with the large denomination numeral "25" at left and "PFENNIG" in bold capitals to the right. The lower portion carries a three-line redemption text in German, the date "Godesberg, 25. Oktober 1920", the mayor's designation "Der Bürgermeister" with a manuscript signature, and the printer's imprint "M. DUMONT SCHAUBERG, KÖLN" at the foot; a rectangular double-rule border with corner squares frames the entire design. |
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| Obverse lettering | BAD GODESBERG a/RHEIN Gutschein über 25 PFENNIG No. 052088 Dieser Gutschein wird von den Kassen der Gemeinde in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in den Godesberger Zeitungen. Die Gemeinde haftet für die Einlösung. Godesberg, 25. Oktober 1920. Der Bürgermeister: M. DUMONT SCHAUBERG, KÖLN. |
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Bad Godesberg issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that plagued Germany in the early Weimar period, when metal coinage had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply uneconomical to produce against runaway inflation. Thousands of German municipalities and commercial entities printed their own Kleingeldersatz, and the Rhineland was particularly active in this, partly because the occupied territories along the Rhine had additional monetary disruptions layered on top of the national crisis.
M. Dumont Schauberg was a Cologne newspaper and printing house, not a specialist security printer. Its appearance on notgeld is unremarkable for the period — most municipal issuers contracted whoever was locally available.