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25 Pfennig Verkehrs- und Verschönerungs-Verein Schoenecken-Wetteldorf und Umgegend
| Issuer | Verkehrs- und Verschönerungs-Verein Schoenecken-Wetteldorf und Umgegend E.V. |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | The upper register carries a bold black banner with the denomination '25 PFENNIG 25' in large Gothic letters. To the left, a letterpress vignette presents a panoramic view of Schoenecken town with the medieval castle ruins of Burg Schönecken rising dramatically above the rooftops. The right panel contains the issuing authority's text in Gothic script, the date 'Schoenecken (Eifel), den 1. Dezember 1921', and three manuscript signatures of the Vorstand beneath their respective titles. A redemption notice in a lower black border panel states the note's validity period. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large photo-mechanical halftone vignette set within a rounded arch border, showing a genre scene of elderly men seated at a table outside a rural inn, with a farmer leading a heavily laden draft horse in the background street. The denomination numeral '25' appears in each upper corner within decorative dark cartouches. Below the central vignette, a small illustration of a stoneware jug flanked by two cups separates a two-part inscription in the local Eifel dialect rendered in Roman type. |
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Schoenecken, a small village in the Eifel region near the Belgian border, had little economic weight on its own — the Verkehrs- und Verschönerungs-Verein was a local tourism and beautification society, not a bank or municipality. That such an organization was issuing emergency currency in 1921 speaks directly to how thoroughly the postwar coin shortage had broken down normal exchange at even the most local level.
Schaar & Dathe of Trier printed a large volume of Notgeld for the Eifel and Moselle districts during this period and knew the format well.