25 Pfennig

Remscheid's Notgeld issues of this period were a direct consequence of the postwar coin shortage that left German municipalities scrambling to cover small-denomination transactions. The city, an industrial center in the Bergisches Land historically tied to tool and cutlery manufacturing, issued these notes under the same emergency provisions that drove thousands of German local authorities to print their own scrip between 1919 and 1922.

Paper Notgeld of this type was often printed in short runs by local print shops with variable quality control, and Remscheid issues from this window are not systematically catalogued by major references — condition and print registration vary considerably across surviving examples.