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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat Detmold |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Kämmereikasse löst diesen Gutschein ein. Er wird ungültig einen Monat nach öffentlicher Aufkündigung. Gut für 25 Pfennig Der Magistrat Detmold, im Aug. 1920 |
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| 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.