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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Boppard (City of Boppard) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | BOPPARDER NOTGELD Bruder Michel Gültig bis 1 Monat nach Aufkündigung Boppard d. 30. III. 1921 O. Bürgermstr. GEBR. PARCUS, MÜNCHEN. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same red and dark brown palette on cream paper, with two ornate vertical panels at left and right bearing the stacked inscriptions 'STADT' and 'BOPPARD' respectively, each panel surmounted by stylized figural decoration and enclosing a circular denomination cartouche reading '25'. The central field carries a dramatic vignette of a cloaked standing figure before a rocky arch, rendered in dark silhouette. A verse in German script occupies the upper right of the central field as a text panel. |
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Boppard's 1921 Pfennig notgeld was a product of municipal desperation rather than civic pride. The postwar coin shortage — caused by wartime metal requisitioning and the subsequent hoarding of any metallic currency worth holding — forced hundreds of German towns to commission their own small-denomination paper, and Boppard was no exception. Gebrüder Parcus of Munich handled an enormous volume of this notgeld work in the early 1920s, supplying municipalities across Germany with competently printed if commercially routine issues.
The DeNG reference suffix "1/2" indicates this is one of a paired series — both values sharing a common design format, a typical Parcus production economy.