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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Monschau (City of Monschau) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black and sage green on cream paper, with a bold Gothic blackletter header reading 'Gutschein der Stadt Monschau' within a tinted band at the top. Two large arabesque-framed diamond vignettes at left and right each bear the numeral '25' in white relief against a dark ground, flanking a central hexagonal cartouche with the validity notice and the issuing date 'Monschau, 1.7.21.' followed by the mayor's title and signature. The lower tinted band carries the denomination spelled out in Gothic script as 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfennige', and the designer's name 'Lütkens' appears discreetly at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Monschau 25 Ein Bollwerk trutzig fest und stark Ragt stolz die Burg auf Bergeshöh'n. Mög' sie hier an des Reiches Mark Das Auferstehn der Heimat sehn. MONSCHAU |
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Monschau — known until 1918 as Aachen — issued this Notgeld during the severe small-change shortage that gripped the Rhineland in the early Weimar years. The border town had particular reason for instability: the Versailles settlement left it uncomfortably close to the Belgian occupation zone, and local municipal finance was under strain from both reparations disruption and the broader collapse of confidence in Reichsbank coin circulation.
Lütkens is credited as designer, a name appearing across several Rhenish Notgeld issues of the period. Whether this was a local commission or a shared plate design adapted for Monschau specifically is not firmly established.