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25 Pfennig Amt Waltrop
| Issuer | Amt Waltrop |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Light green notgeld note with an overall geometric interlaced guilloche underprint forming the background. The denomination numeral '25' appears in large bold blackletter type at the upper left and upper right corners, with the issuer name 'Amt Waltrop' centred at the top in blackletter script. The face value is stated in words in large blackletter type across the centre, beneath the word 'Gutschein über'. A validity clause in smaller roman type occupies the lower centre, followed by the place and date of issue at lower left and a facsimile manuscript signature of the Amtmann at lower right. |
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| Protection type | Dry stamp (Trockenstempel) |
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Waltrop was a small administrative district (Amt) in Westphalia, and like hundreds of comparable municipalities it turned to Notgeld in 1920 as the Reichsbank's coin shortages dragged into a third year. The dry stamp — pressed directly into the paper rather than inked — was a common anti-counterfeiting measure at this level of local issue, practical given that most Ämter had no access to sophisticated printing security.
Municipal Notgeld of this type was typically printed in very small runs by local printers and redeemed within months. Survival rates are uneven and often tied to collector activity at the time of issue rather than actual circulation.