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2 Pfennig Tietze and Seidensticker
| Issuer | Tietze & Seidensticker, Penzig (Silesia) |
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| Size | 73 × 46 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark ink on plain buff paper without an outer border frame, relying on typeset text and ornamental elements for its layout. Two blocks of Fraktur-script text explain the redemption conditions, flanking a central octagonal medallion with a radiating guilloché surround enclosing the numeral '2'. Decorative gothic monogram cyphers reading 'Pf.' appear to either side of the central medallion, and vertical ornamental rules with arrow motifs frame the composition at left and right. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Notgeldscheine haben Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach Aufforderung zur Einlösung, die nur durch Bekanntmachung im Aushängekasten am Kontorgebäude stattfindet. Die Notgeldscheine sind bis 1 Mark zu sammeln und im Kontor zur Einlösung vorzulegen. Pf. 2 Pf. |
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Penzig was a small textile-manufacturing town in Lower Silesia, and like hundreds of similar communities during the Kleingeldnot of 1917–1921, its local businesses were forced to print their own fractional currency when official coinage disappeared from circulation — hoarded by a public that understood inflation was coming. Tietze & Seidensticker was almost certainly a local commercial firm rather than a bank, issuing these notes as functional change tokens rather than as any formal monetary instrument.
German notgeld at this denomination survives in disproportionately high numbers because collectors intervened almost immediately — many pieces never circulated at all.