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25 Pfennigs orange issue
| Issuer | Stadt Cleve (City of Kleve, Prussian Rhine Province) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Orange and dark brown Notgeld printed in letterpress on orange paper, with the issuer's name "Stadt Cleve" in bold Gothic blackletter at the top centre, flanked on all four corners by large numeral "25" in high-contrast panels. Symmetrical ornamental vignettes resembling stylised cross or star motifs occupy the lateral middle panels beside the word "Pfennig", framing a central text block that gives the denomination in words — "Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig" — followed by a validity clause, the date "Cleve, den 25. 12. 1920", and the printed title "Der Bürgermeister" with a manuscript signature below. A dotted border encloses the entire design. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Cleve Gutschein Nr. über Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig Dieser Gutschein wird von den städt. Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er hat Gültigkeit einen Monat nach amtl. Aufkündigung in den i. d. Stadt Cleve erscheinenden Zeitungen. Cleve, den 25. 12. 1920 Der Bürgermeister: 25 Pfennig |
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Kleve's municipal notgeld program was prolific even by Rhineland standards. The city issued multiple series between 1919 and 1921, with color variants used to distinguish denominations within a series rather than to mark separate printings — the orange on this 25 Pfennig note is a functional coding choice, not an artistic one.
The Prussian Rhine Province was among the regions most aggressively targeted by Allied occupation authorities after 1918, and municipal issuers like Kleve operated under genuine currency shortages driven partly by Reichsbank restrictions on coin and small-denomination note supply to occupied zones.