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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Rehmen (Municipality of Rehmen, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Gebrüder Parcus, Munich, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Red and green Notgeld note with a bold Gothic-script banner at top reading "Notgeld Gem. Rehmen" against a red ground. The central field is dominated by a white triangular vignette bearing the denomination "25 Pfennig" in Gothic lettering, flanked symmetrically by elaborate green acanthus-scroll ornaments on a red underprint. Below the denomination, an alphanumeric serial appears, followed by the issue date "1 August 1921" between two manuscript signatures over the printed titles "Bürgermeister" and "Gemeinderats-Vors."; the printer's imprint "Offsetdruck Gebr. Parcus München" appears at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld Gem. Rehmen 25 Pfennig 1 August 1921 Bürgermeister Gemeinderats-Vors. M.W. Schulz OFFSETDRUCK GEBR. PARCUS MÜNCHEN |
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Rehmen is a small village in Thuringia, and like thousands of similarly obscure German municipalities, it issued emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — during the acute coin shortage that followed World War I. By 1921 the Reichsbank was struggling to keep fractional coinage in circulation, and local authorities across Germany stepped into the gap with their own paper. Rehmen's 25 Pfennig note was printed by Gebrüder Parcus in Munich, a firm that handled an enormous volume of this municipal notgeld work and brought consistent technical quality to what was otherwise a chaotic cottage industry.
Designer M.W. Schulz is credited on this piece — relatively unusual for notgeld at this denomination level.