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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Steinheim (Westf.), Stadtsparkasse |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Purple and gold Notgeld note with a serrated border on a violet ground. A bold gold banner across the upper portion carries the issuer's name in Gothic script, flanked on either side by large denomination numerals '25'. At centre, an octagonal vignette in red and white presents a line-engraved view of the Stadtsparkasse building in Steinheim, framed by the inscriptions 'STADTSPARKASSE' above and 'STEINHEIM' below. A second gold ribbon beneath the central vignette bears the denomination legend in Gothic script, and the lower portion carries the payment obligation text, date of issue, magistrate's facsimile signature, and serial number in black letterpress. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 Pf Stadt Steinheim, ANNO 1564 Gültig bis einen Monat nach ortsüblicher weise erfolgtem Aufruf. |
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Steinheim an der Weser is a small Westphalian town, and its 1921 Notgeld issue was produced by Selmar Bayer in Berlin — one of the more prolific small-denomination emergency currency printers of the Weimar inflation period. Bayer supplied similar municipal issues across dozens of German towns during the 1921–1922 peak of Kleingeldnotstand, when coins of low denomination had effectively vanished from circulation through hoarding and melting.
The issuing authority here is the Stadtsparkasse rather than the municipality directly — a distinction that occasionally affected redemption terms and legal standing when towns later contested liability for outstanding notes.