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25 Pfennig Gebr. Koch
| Issuer | Buchdruckerei Gebr. Koch, Verlag des Trierischen Volksfreunds, Trier |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Cream paper Notgeld printed in green throughout, enclosed within a double-rule border with the denomination numeral '25' in each corner. A letterpress text band at the top carries a Rhenish folk saying, below which the voucher title 'Gutschein über' appears in bold Gothic script above the large denomination '25 Pfennig'. A light guilloche-style numerical underprint fills the centre field. The lower portion bears the validity clause, the issue date 'Trier, den 15. Februar 1920', a printed serial number prefixed 'No', and the issuer's name in two lines at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Kaiserpalast. |
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Notgeld of this type — emergency small-change scrip issued by local businesses and printers rather than banks — flooded the Rhineland in 1920 as Germany's coin shortage became acute. Gebr. Koch was itself a printing and publishing operation, the parent house of the Trierischer Volksfreund newspaper, which gave it unusual in-house competence to produce passable currency-adjacent material. The printer of record, Schaar & Dathe, was also a Trier firm — genuinely local production throughout.
Designer h. Quant is otherwise unattested in the standard references for this period. The 1920 Rhineland Notgeld series from Trier is modestly collected but rarely generates serious competition outside regional specialist sales.