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25 Pfennig Henschel and Sohn
| Issuer | Henschel & Sohn, Hattingen (Prussian province of Westphalia) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Circular notgeld note printed by letterpress on coarse paper in dark ink, enclosed within a double circular border. The denomination '25 Pf.' is set in large blackletter (Fraktur) type at the centre, flanked on either side by small rectangular guilloche ornaments. The issuer's name 'Henschel & Sohn' arches along the upper periphery in blackletter script, with a complementary legend curving along the lower periphery. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting a plain coarse paper surface devoid of any design, text, or ornament — a characteristic common to privately issued notgeld emergency currency tokens of the World War I period. |
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Henschel & Sohn in Hattingen was a steelworks and rolling mill operation — unrelated to the more famous Henschel locomotive manufacturer in Kassel despite sharing a name. This note is Notgeld, issued during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany from roughly 1916 onward, when metal coins were systematically withdrawn from circulation for wartime industrial use. Private employers, municipalities, and cooperatives all filled the gap with their own printed scrip, redeemable only within their own sphere of influence.
Factory-issued Notgeld of this type was typically redeemable at the company store or wage office, which kept most pieces from straying far — limiting survival rates for genuinely circulated examples.