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25 Pfennig Gewerbeverein
| Issuer | Gewerbeverein Prüm e.V. |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a wide panoramic landscape vignette in fine letterpress, presenting a bird's-eye view of the town of Prüm-Eifel set among wooded hills and meadows, with the abbey church visible on the left and the Dausfelder Schlucht valley in the background. A green circular medallion bearing the numeral '25' is centred at the foot of the vignette, flanked by ribbon banners with the inscriptions 'Luftkurort Prüm-Eifel.' and 'Dausfelder-Schlucht.' The entire composition is enclosed within a decorative border of green oak-leaf garlands. |
| Reverse lettering | Luftkurort Prüm-Eifel. 25 Dausfelder-Schlucht. |
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Prüm is a small town in the Eifel region of western Germany, and this 25 Pfennig note is a product of the Notgeld wave that followed the post-WWI economic dislocation — local merchants' and tradesmen's associations across Germany issued their own emergency scrip when the Reichsbank failed to keep small-denomination coinage in circulation. The Gewerbeverein, a commercial and trades association, acted as guarantor rather than a bank, which gives this piece a different legal character from municipal Notgeld of the same period.
Paper Notgeld from small issuing bodies like this rarely survived in quantity; much was redeemed and pulped once the emergency passed in the mid-1920s.