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100 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Glatz (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 100 Pfennigs (100 Pfennige) |
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| Obverse description | The central panel bears a vignette of the Glatz city skyline with church spires above an ornate cartouche, over the bold Fraktur inscriptions identifying the issuer and validity date. The denomination '100 Pf.' appears in octagonal frames at upper left and right, while the lateral panels carry small oval vignettes of genre figures — a scholar at left and a craftsman at right — set against a stippled guilloche underprint in rose and grey. A facsimile signature of the Magistrat appears below the central text block. |
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| Reverse lettering | Blatzer Volksliedlein / Dreiza värza Schneider die / wieja fufza Pfönd on / wenn se dois nie wieja do / senn se nie gesönd! / L. SCHIRMER GLATZ |
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Glatz — now Kłodzko in southwestern Poland — was a Silesian garrison town with a long Prussian administrative history, and its municipal authority issued this 1921 Pfennig note as part of Germany's broader Notgeld wave. By 1921, the inflationary spiral had made small-denomination coins functionally useless in circulation; thousands of German municipalities, including minor ones like Glatz, were authorized to print their own emergency subsidiary currency to fill the gap left by vanishing coinage.
L. Schirmer was a local Glatz printer — not a specialist banknote firm — which is typical of the smaller Notgeld issues and accounts for the variable printing quality seen across surviving specimens.