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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bentheim (City of Bentheim) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Dark woodcut-style vignette on a yellow-ochre ground presenting a panoramic townscape of Bentheim with the castle silhouette rising above the rooftops. A ribbon banner at upper centre bears the town name 'BENTHEIM' beneath the municipal coat of arms, with the denomination '25 Pf' in bold script to the right. Marginal text runs vertically on both sides and horizontally along the top and bottom borders, with the issuing authority 'DER MAGISTRAT' and a manuscript signature at the lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | KASSE BENTHEIM IN ZAHLUNG GENOMMEN + E.P. VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT EINEN MONAT NACH ANKÜNDIGUNG IN DER ZEITUNG + DER GUTSCHEIN WIRD VON DER STADT BENTHEIM 25 Pf DER MAGISTRAT |
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Bentheim's 1921 Pfennig notgeld belongs to the first wave of municipal small-change emergency currency that flooded Germany as coin hoarding and metal shortages made fractional coinage functionally unavailable. The Stadt Bentheim series was issued under the broader Westphalian notgeld program, with local administrative bodies authorized to fill the gap the Reichsbank simply couldn't. At 25 Pfennig, this is the denomination that saw the hardest actual use — small enough to change hands constantly, large enough to matter in daily transactions.
The DeNG reference places it within the first half of the 1921 run, before the inflation spiral made such modest denominations economically irrelevant within the year.