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100 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Glatz (City of Glatz), Grafschaft Glatz |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein / der / Stadt Glatz / Grafschaft Glatz / Gültig bis zum 31. Dezember 1921 / Der Magistrat / 100 Pf. |
| Reverse description | The central panel bears the heading 'Glatzer Volksliedlein' in Gothic script above a humorous illustration of a rider mounted on a giant snail attended by two figures, rendered in a folk-art style in black and rose-red. Below the vignette, four lines of a local dialect folk song verse are printed in blackletter script interspersed with musical staff notation in red. The side borders repeat standing caricature figures of posthorn-blowing musicians flanking large '100 Pf.' denomination panels, with decorative corner rosettes throughout. |
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Glatz — known today as Kłodzko — was a German administrative and garrison town in Lower Silesia in 1921, and this note belongs to the vast wave of municipal Notgeld that flooded Germany during the post-WWI inflationary spiral. Cities and towns issued their own fractional notes when Reichsbank currency dried up at the local level; Glatz was one of hundreds doing exactly this. L. Schirmer was a local print house, and the decision to keep production in-town rather than contracting one of the major Notgeld printers was typical of smaller municipal issues.
The Grafschaft Glatz — County of Glatz — had passed between Bohemian, Habsburg, and Prussian hands repeatedly before 1921, finally becoming Polish territory after 1945 when the entire region was transferred under the Potsdam Agreement.