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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat Detmold |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 75 × 55 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette in blue and red letterpress showing the Hermannsdenkmal (Hermann Monument) as a bold silhouette rising above a wooded hillside, flanked on either side by tall conifers rendered in fine black line engraving. A red hatched sky fills the background behind the monument. The denomination numeral "25" in red appears in each of the four corners within plain rectangular frames, and patriotic inscriptions in blue Fraktur blackletter run across the top and bottom margins. |
| Reverse lettering | Deutsche Einigkeit meine Stärke, Meine Stärke Deutschlands Macht. 25 |
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Detmold's municipal notgeld issues of 1920 belong to the second wave of German emergency money — by this point, the Reichsbank's coin shortage had dragged on long enough that town councils across Westphalia and Lippe were printing their own fractional currency as a matter of routine administrative necessity. The Magistrat here acted under the same broadly tolerated legal ambiguity that allowed hundreds of German municipalities to issue without formal central authorization.
Small-denomination Detmold pieces from this period are common in intact dealer lots but frequently turn up with vertical fold damage — these circulated hard in a town of under 15,000 people with limited banking infrastructure.