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25 Pfennig Buchdruckerei Rehmann

Issuer Bockenem, City of
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Type Local banknote
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Reverse description The reverse is dominated by a large central colour vignette of the Church of St. Pancras (Kirche St. Pankratii) in Bockenem, rendered in a detailed illustrative style with trees and townspeople in the foreground. The header repeats 'Ambergau Notgeld' with a swastika emblem flanked by teal geometric corner ornaments, while the denomination '25 Pfg' appears in large ornate blackletter numerals and lettering within decorative black-and-gold panels on both left and right borders. A caption band at the foot of the central vignette identifies the subject.
Reverse lettering Ambergau Notgeld
25 Pfg
Kirche St. Pankratii.
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Bockenem is a small town in Lower Saxony, and this note is exactly what it appears to be: a locally produced Notgeld piece printed by the town's own press during the post-WWI small-change crisis that forced hundreds of German municipalities to issue emergency currency. Buchdruckerei Heinr. Rehmann was a commercial printer, not a security press — no intaglio, no watermarked paper, none of the anti-counterfeiting infrastructure of a proper banknote operation.

Counterfeiting such notes was almost pointless given their hyper-local acceptance radius and brief validity windows. The real risk was over-issuance by the municipalities themselves.

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