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25 Pfennig Verein für chemische Industrie in Mainz
| Issuer | Verein für chemische Industrie in Mainz |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-tinted notgeld on plain paper with an outer border of fine dotted guilloche ornament running the full perimeter. The issuer's name in Gothic blackletter script is set across the top within a ruled panel, while a large watermark-style underprint of the word "INDUSTRIE" appears vertically at left centre. The denomination "25 Pfennig" is rendered in bold Gothic type at centre, above three lines of justified German text setting out the conditions of acceptance and expiry date, followed by two manuscript facsimile signatures and the place-and-date line "Frankfurt a. M., 1. November 1918" at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Verein für chemische Industrie in Mainz Gutschein No. 17069 25 Pfennig Dieser Gutschein wird von sämtlichen Kassen des Vereins für chemische Industrie in Zahlung genommen. Der Schein verfällt am 31. Dezember 1919. Frankfurt a. M., 1. November 1918. |
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Verein für chemische Industrie was a chemical manufacturing association based in Mainz, and this 25 Pfennig note belongs to the enormous wave of Notgeld that flooded Germany from 1917 onward as small coins vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply outpaced by wartime demand. Municipalities, businesses, and industrial associations all issued their own emergency scrip, with minimal central oversight.
The Frankfurt printing origin is consistent with several regional Notgeld series from the Rhine-Main area, where local printers absorbed substantial commercial work during this period. Industrial issuers like this one typically produced short runs tied to payroll needs rather than broad public circulation.