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25 Pfennig - Buer in Westfalen
| Issuer | Stadt Buer in Westfalen |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | The large numeral '25' dominates the central field in bold, stylized relief with decorative curved strokes, serving as the principal design element. The denomination legend 'PFENNIG' is inscribed in a straight line along the lower portion of the field. The issuer's name 'STADT BUER i. W.' curves in a semicircular legend across the upper portion of the flan, with the plain octagonal border framing the entire composition. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Buer was an independent industrial city in the Westphalian coalfield — it wouldn't be absorbed into Gelsenkirchen until 1928. This zinc notgeld piece dates from the inflationary emergency coinage period following World War I, when municipal authorities across Germany were forced to produce their own small-denomination tokens to fill a vacuum left by hoarded or absent Reichscoinage. Zinc was the material of necessity, not choice; copper and nickel had been stripped from civilian production years earlier by wartime requisition.