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25 Pfennig - Bonn Ludwig van Beethoven
| Issuer | City of Bonn |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Thickness | 1.7 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT BONN 25 PFENNIG |
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| Reverse lettering | BEETHOVEN BONN 1770 1920 |
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Bonn issued this notgeld piece in 1920 under the economic pressures that followed Germany's defeat — municipal iron coinage was a direct consequence of metal shortages and the collapse of centralized currency supply. The city chose Beethoven, its most commercially exploitable native son, for a coin that was as much civic branding as emergency money. Iron notgeld from this period corrodes readily, and survivors in presentable condition are rarer than mintage figures suggest.