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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Burg an der Wupper (City of Burg an der Wupper) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Burg ad. Wupper BURG. B.M. SIEGEL. FREIHEIT Gültig bis 1. IV. 22 Burg a.d. Wupper 1. XII. 21. Der Bürgermeister Beuwersdorf 25 |
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| Reverse lettering | Unterburg und Oberburg mit Schloß |
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Burg an der Wupper issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in 1921, when coin metal was still being diverted and Reichsbank notes of low denomination had largely vanished from circulation through hoarding. Municipal authorities across the Rhineland and Westphalia stepped in with their own Kleingeldersatz, and Burg — a small industrial town on the Wupper River, historically significant for its textile production — was among hundreds of communities to do so. The legal basis was perpetually contested; the Reichsbank tolerated rather than sanctioned it.
The single signatory, Beuwersdorf, was almost certainly a municipal treasurer or Bürgermeister functionary rather than a banking official.