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25 Pfennig - Werne a. d. Lippe
| Issuer | City of Werne an der Lippe |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Weight | 3.7 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A detailed architectural view of the Werne town hall (Rathaus), built in 1561, occupies the central field. The multi-storey Renaissance-style building is depicted with a stepped gabled roofline, rows of mullioned windows on the upper storeys, and an arcaded ground-floor loggia with arched openings. Flanking foliage and subsidiary structures are visible to either side of the main building. The inscription 'RAT' and 'HAUS' appear in bold raised lettering in the upper left and upper right corners respectively, split across the octagonal field, with the founding date '1561' inscribed along the lower margin. |
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Werne an der Lippe issued this notgeld piece during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in 1921, when coin metal was still being rationed and municipal authorities across the Westphalian coalfields were left to fill the gap themselves. Iron was the unsentimental choice — cheap, available, and already familiar from wartime emergency coinage.
The Funck reference places this among a well-documented but modestly collected category of Westphalian iron notgeld, where survival rates vary sharply depending on storage conditions.