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25 Pfennig - Düren
| Issuer | Stadt Düren (City of Düren) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | A full-length figure of a coal miner in working attire is depicted in left profile, striding purposefully across a ground line. He carries a pickaxe resting over his right shoulder and holds a miner's safety lamp in his left hand at his side. A circumferential legend in capital letters surrounds the figure, reading 'ICH FOERDERE KOHLE UND RETTE MEIN VATERLAND' (I mine coal and save my fatherland). The date '1919' appears in the lower exergue flanked by two decorative dots, completing the patriotic and allegorical composition. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Düren's 1919 iron notgeld emerged from the same municipal scramble that drove hundreds of German towns to strike emergency coinage when the central government's coin production collapsed under wartime metal requisitions and postwar supply chaos. Iron was not chosen for its durability — it was what remained after brass, nickel, and copper had been stripped for the war effort. Pieces from this issue corrode readily, and genuinely problem-free survivors are harder to find than catalog frequency suggests.