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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Trappstadt (Market Town of Trappstadt) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 40 × 36 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed on light green paper, the obverse carries the heading 'Valuta- und Notgeld' in decorative script at the top, followed by 'Marktgemeinde TRAPPSTADT' with an issue date of 31.12.20 to the left and a facsimile Bürgermeister signature to the right. The central vignette presents the municipal coat of arms — a heraldic shield framed by ornamental chains, bearing a bird perched on a branch holding a sprig in its beak — flanked by the denomination numeral '25' at lower left and right, above the colloquial motto 'So sind wir g'stellt!' |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is set on the same light green paper stock and enclosed within a bold red rectangular border. A finely executed letterpress vignette occupies the centre, rendering a view of the 'Altes Schloss' (Old Castle) of Trappstadt — a baroque domed building flanked by trees, with birds in flight to the upper right and an artist's signature 'Wiester' visible at lower right. The denomination '25 Pfennig' is inscribed at the top of the vignette, and the printer's imprint 'Franz Scheiner, Würzburg.' appears in red at the foot of the note. |
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Trappstadt is a village in Lower Franconia — population then well under a thousand — which makes this Scheiner-printed Notgeld piece a product of the absolute lower tier of emergency currency issuance. The 1920 wave of municipal small-change notes flooded Bavaria and the surrounding regions precisely because the Reichsbank could not keep fractional coinage in circulation; hoarding and metal shortages had stripped the commercial system of anything useful below the Mark level.
Franz Scheiner of Würzburg printed extensively for small Franconian municipalities during this period, often recycling decorative borders between clients.