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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Castrop (City of Castrop) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | The city coat of arms of Castrop occupies the left portion of the note, displaying a gold saltire (X-shaped cross) on a blue shield surmounted by a crenellated tower, all rendered in colour letterpress. To the right, the denomination "25 Pfennig" appears in large red Gothic script beneath the issuer legend "Gutschein der Stadt Castrop über," set against a yellow-green guilloche underprint. A cursive validity clause and the dated magistrate's signature of Wynen run along the lower margin, with the printer's imprint at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Castrop über 25 Pfennig Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültig- keit in einem Monat nach öffentlicher Aufforderung zur Einlösung. Castrop, den 24. März 1921. Der Magistrat Wynen (Translation: Voucher of the city of Castrop for 25 Pfennigs. This note loses its validity one month after public notice of redemption. Castrop, 24 March 1921. The Magistrate Wynen) |
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Castrop's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the densest phase of German municipal emergency currency, when hundreds of Westphalian towns scrambled to fill the small-denomination vacuum left by a hoarding public and a mint unable to keep pace with demand. W. Crüwell was a Dortmund commercial printer with no particular specialization in security printing — practical proximity, not prestige, explains the contract.
Castrop would merge with neighboring Rauxel in 1926, making all pre-merger civic issues documents of a municipality that no longer exists.