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100 Pfennig Städtische Sparkasse
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Glatz |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 100 Pfennigs (100 Pfennige) (1.00) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown and olive-tan tones, with a central dark circular vignette containing the large denomination numeral '100' above the word 'Pfennig' in white letterpress. Flanking the central roundel on both sides are symmetrical woodcut-style decorative panels with stylised birds, foliage, and folk-art motifs forming a border underprint. Below the central vignette, the issue date and the legend 'DER VERWALTUNGSRAT' appear alongside three facsimile signatures, with the validity clause printed in Gothic script along the lower margin between two five-pointed stars. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Städt-Sparkasse Glatz GLATZ D. 6. OKTOBER 1921 DER VERWALTUNGSRAT Gültig bis 3 Monate nach Aufruf |
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Glatz — now Kłodzko in Lower Silesia — was still firmly German in 1921, and this Sparkasse note belongs to the enormous wave of municipal Notgeld that flooded German commerce during the hyperinflationary spiral following the First World War. Local savings banks, not just town councils, issued their own emergency fractions because Reichsbank coins had effectively vanished from circulation through hoarding and metal export.
L. Schirmer was a local Glatz printer, not one of the major specialist Notgeld houses. That matters: the production quality and paper consistency across the series can be variable.