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25 Pfennig redviolett issue
| Issuer | Stadt Ahrweiler (City of Ahrweiler) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Red-violet notgeld on a pale underprint with a foliate guilloche background. The left portion carries the issuing authority 'Stadt Ahrweiler' in bold letterpress at top, with the denomination '25 Pfennig' in large type and a redemption clause in small text below, alongside the circular city seal bearing the Ahrweiler coat of arms. To the right, within a decorative arched vignette, stands a full-length woodcut-style figure of Konrad von Blankart in medieval costume, captioned 'KONRAD VON BLANKART / AHRWEILER 1561.' at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Red-violet vignette printed in letterpress on a plain ground, centred on a panoramic view of the medieval town gate and fortifications of Ahrweiler with figures on horseback in the foreground and vineyards extending to either side. The denomination '25' appears in large numerals at upper left and upper right corners. The Ahrweiler city arms are inset at lower left and a vintner's barrel-and-mallet device at lower right, with the caption '· KREISSTADT AHRWEILER ·' along the lower border. |
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Ahrweiler's 1921 emergency coinage series belongs to the vast wave of German municipal Kleingeldersatz notes that flooded circulation after the First World War left the Reichsbank unable to supply adequate fractional coinage. Carl Schleicher & Schüll in Düren was a workhorse printer for exactly this kind of regional Notgeld work — a paper and filter manufacturer that pivoted its industrial capacity toward the printing trade and handled enormous volumes of these municipal issues throughout the early Weimar inflation period.
The red-violet color coding on this denomination is consistent with the visual differentiation schemes many municipalities adopted to reduce handling errors at the point of sale.