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25 Pfennig Bank für Handel und Industrie
| Issuer | Bank für Handel und Industrie, Niederlassung Greiz |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Pink and black Notgeld note with a decorative wavy border enclosing the entire design. At left, a bold numeral '25' is set within an octagonal black cartouche. The issuer's name and branch appear in uppercase at the top, followed by the denomination written out in large Gothic script as 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig'. Two manuscript signatures appear at centre-right above the validity clause, with the date 'Greiz, d. 1. Oktbr 1919' printed to their left. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 25 |
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The Bank für Handel und Industrie was a Berlin-based private commercial bank — the Darmstädter Bank, as it was commonly known — and its Greiz branch issued this 25 Pfennig note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in 1919. Coins had been hoarded or melted, and municipal and commercial entities across the country were authorized to fill the gap with emergency Kleingeldersatz. Greiz, a small industrial town in Thuringia, was no exception.
Branch-issued Notgeld from private banks rather than municipalities is notably less common in collections than the civic variety.