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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Ehrenbreitstein (City of Ehrenbreitstein) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | City arms of Ehrenbreitstein at left — a red shield divided by a white cross with a key in base — within an ornate border. To the right, the denomination '25 PFENNIG' in bold script above the issue date and a facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister. Printer's imprint 'SCHAAR & DATHE, TRIER.' at bottom centre. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette in a folk-art style illustrates a woman in traditional Rhenish dress standing arms akimbo while a man tilts a large stoneware jug to drink; a dialect verse appears in a panel above. The denomination '25' is repeated in all four corners within hatched cartouches, flanked by vignettes of Rhenish wine jugs. Designer's signature 'R. AULAND.' at lower right. |
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Ehrenbreitstein was absorbed into the newly consolidated city of Koblenz in 1937, but in 1921 it still functioned as an independent municipality — which is precisely why it had the authority to issue its own Notgeld. The postwar small-change shortage was acute enough that hundreds of German towns printed their own emergency fractional currency, and Schaar & Dathe in Trier handled a substantial share of the Rhineland commissions during this period.
Wagner's signature as Bürgermeister pins this to a specific and short-lived civic identity. Within sixteen years, the issuing authority no longer existed as a legal entity.