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25 Pfennig Wohltätigkeitsbazar
| Issuer | City of Castrop (Prussian province of Westphalia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 Pfennig GUTSCHEIN Nur gültig auf dem Wohltätigkeits-Bazar in Castrop, vom 15. - 18. Oktober 1921 (Translation: VOUCHER 25 Pfennig Only valid on the Charity Bazaar in Castrop from October 15-18, 1921) |
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| Reverse lettering | SELTEN WIRD EINST DIESER SCHEIN, DARUM, HAMST'RER STECK' IHN EIN! TUST DU'S NICHT, WIRD'S DICH GEREUEN, TUST DU'S, WIRD'S DIE ARMEN FREUEN! F. J. Pruys. (Translation: This note will be rare, so, collectors, keep it! If you don't, you will regret it, If you do, the poor will be happy!) |
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Castrop's 1921 charity bazaar note is among the more unusual applications of the Notgeld phenomenon — issued not to relieve a coin shortage in commerce but to fund a municipal charitable event directly. The face value functioned essentially as a admission or purchase token, with redemption tied to the bazaar itself rather than to any ongoing circulating obligation. Whether the city ever formally redeemed outstanding pieces after the event is unrecorded, which likely accounts for the survival rate being higher than for workhorse emergency issues of the same period.