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25 Pfennig Harry Trüller
| Issuer | Harry Trüller, Celle (Zwieback-, Waffel- und Ketsfabriken) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Orange guilloche underprint covers the entire note, with a fine lozenge-pattern background. At centre, the word 'Gutschein' is printed in large Gothic blackletter script, flanked on each side by a circular vignette enclosing the numeral '25' above 'Pfennig'. A central cartouche contains the 'Marke Trüller' trade mark vignette. The issuer's name 'Harry Trüller, Celle' and business description appear at top in Gothic lettering, with the denomination spelled out in full along the lower register; a serial number and manuscript signature of Harry Trüller appear at bottom left and centre respectively. |
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| Reverse description | Orange guilloche underprint with a fine lozenge-pattern background, matching the obverse. A large central ornamental vignette in lighter orange tones surrounds the 'Marke Trüller' heraldic trade mark cartouche, rendered in darker intaglio-style engraving. Below the vignette, a three-line redemption text in Gothic script states the note's validity and place of redemption; the printer's imprint 'Gebr. Parcus, München' appears at the foot of the note in small roman capitals. |
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Harry Trüller's Celle-based biscuit and wafer factory was among thousands of German private businesses that issued their own Notgeld during the acute small-change famine of 1918, when metal coinage had all but vanished from everyday commerce. The authorization to do so came not from the Reichsbank but from local administrative tolerance — these notes were technically scrip, redeemable only at the issuing firm. Gebr. Parcus in Munich handled an enormous volume of this kind of emergency printing work, supplying issuers across Germany with small runs that would have been uneconomical for larger printers to bother with.