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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lorch am Rhein (City of Lorch on the Rhine) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 85 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER STADT LORCH AM RHEIN. Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit vier Wochen nach erfolgtem Aufruf im Rheingauer Anzeiger. Lorch i. Rhg. 15. Juni 1921 Der Magistrat: [Signatures] № [Serialnumber] S VNIVERSITATIS VILLE LORCHE (Translation: Notgeld of the Town of Lorch on the Rhine. This note loses its validity four weeks after public announcement in the Rheingau Gazette. Lorch in the Rheingau 15th of June 1921 The magistrate: [Signatures] № [Serialnumber] Seal of the Town of Lorch) |
| Reverse description | A scenic Rhine landscape vignette occupies the centre of the note, with a fisherman casting a net in the foreground and a small rowing boat on the water. The town of Lorch with its characteristic roofline and the surrounding hills and valleys of the Rheingau are visible on the far bank. The denomination value is set within squared cartouches in the upper left and upper right corners, and the printer's imprint appears along the lower margin. |
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Lorch am Rhein is a small wine-producing town in the Rheingau, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to address the chronic small-change shortage that plagued the early Weimar Republic. The Parcus brothers in Munich were among the most prolific Notgeld printers of the period, supplying dozens of local authorities across southern and western Germany with notes that were frequently more decorative than functional.
The watermark security feature is worth noting — many municipal Notgeld issues of this scale skipped it entirely, making this a slightly more considered production than the bare-minimum issues flooding circulation at the time.