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25 Pfennig Gewerbeverein
| Issuer | Gewerbeverein Prüm e.V. |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#1079.2 |
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| Reverse description | The entire reverse is occupied by a panoramic landscape vignette in dark green, rendered in fine letterpress, showing the town of Prüm nestled in the Eifel valley with church spires, wooded hillsides, a meandering river, and a stone bridge in the middle distance. The composition is enclosed within a decorative border of oak leaves and acorns in green. At the bottom centre, a bold red circular medallion bears the numeral '25' in white, flanked by a ribbon scroll inscribed with the location names in red lettering. |
| Reverse lettering | Luftkurort Prüm-Eifel. 25 Dausfelder-Schlucht |
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Prüm is a small town in the Eifel region of the Rhineland, and the Gewerbeverein — a local merchants' and tradesmen's association — issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in 1921. Postwar inflation had driven metal coins from circulation; local trade groups, municipalities, and even individual businesses across Germany filled the gap with Kleingeldersatz of their own making. Schaar & Dathe in Trier handled a substantial volume of this regional notgeld work throughout the period.
The DeNG 1/2 reference places it within the broader Rhineland-Palatinate corpus of private issuer notgeld, a category that remains moderately collected but is rarely glamorous.