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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Glatz |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Three ornate medallions arranged horizontally, framed by elaborate green foliate scrollwork with baroque cartouche elements. The central medallion, printed in terracotta-orange, bears the denomination '10 Pfennige' in bold letterpress with a white rampant lion passant in underprint; the left medallion carries the validity inscription 'Gültig bis 3 Monate nach Aufruf' and the right bears the issuing authority 'der Magistrat' with two manuscript facsimile signatures below. The header reads 'Notgeld der Stadt Glatz' in a decorative gothic script, and the printer's imprint 'L. Schirmer Glatz' appears at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette in green tones presents a view of the Böhmisches Thor (Bohemian Gate) of Glatz, a medieval stone gatehouse with a pointed arch, flanked by period figures in the foreground. The vignette is framed by two vertical side panels of diamond-pattern guilloche, each containing a circular medallion with the numeral '10', surmounted by a mermaid-like female figure at the top of each panel. The caption below the central vignette reads 'Aus vergangenen Tagen' in a flowing script. |
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Glatz — now Kłodzko in southwestern Poland — was a Prussian garrison town whose municipal authorities issued small-denomination emergency paper during the First World War, when coins disappeared from circulation almost immediately after mobilization. The Magistrat's series of Kleingeldscheine filled the gap left by hoarded copper and nickel. L. Schirmer was a local print house; the work was purely functional, produced without recourse to a security printer.
The DeNG reference places this within a well-documented Silesian notgeld corpus, but individual print runs for town-level issues of this type were often small and unrecorded.