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25 Pfennig Dellbrücker Lichtspiele
| Issuer | Dellbrücker Lichtspiele (Cologne-Dellbrück cinema) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Ich bin auch kein Silbergeld Nehmt mich doch ihr Leute Bin nun einmal auf der Welt Bin ein Kind von Heute WECHSEL NOTGELD DER DELLBRÜCKER LICHTSPIELE APRIL 1921 NUR GÜLTIG MIT EINGELEGTEN 25 PFENNIGEN IN FREIMARKEN |
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| Reverse lettering | Dieser Wechselgeld - Notschein ist durch die eingelegte unverletzte Freimarke überall im Deutschen Reiche gültig, solange die Freimarke im Kurs bleibt. Dellbrücker Lichtspiele Köln - Dellbrück Dellbrücker Hauptstrasse Vorstellungen: Täglich ausser Montags Wochentags: 5-10 und Sonntags: 2-10 Infolge neu eingebauter Ventilation kühlster Aufenthaltsraum im Sommer! |
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Dellbrücker Lichtspiele was a cinema in Cologne-Dellbrück that issued this 25 Pfennig note during the acute coin shortage that plagued Germany in the early Weimar years. Notgeld issued by private businesses — shops, cinemas, breweries — was legal and common between 1919 and 1922, filling a gap the Reichsbank simply could not address quickly enough. A cinema issuing its own emergency currency is unusual enough; that the note incorporates a postage stamp as its sole security feature places it firmly in the cheaper, improvised end of the Notgeld spectrum.
The stamp served a practical anti-counterfeiting function — removing or replicating it without destroying the note was difficult enough to deter casual fraud at face value.