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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Glatz (City of Glatz), Lower Silesia |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The upper portion of the reverse carries a finely rendered letterpress panoramic vignette of the Glatz fortress (Festung Glatz) and town skyline, with church towers and Baroque onion domes rising above lush foliage and a river in the foreground, all executed in brown. A teal-green band at the base bears the issuer name in bold Gothic lettering flanked on each side by the denomination numeral '25 ℈'. The serial number is printed in large black typeface at the upper right of the note, accompanied by a decorative asterisk device. The printer's imprint appears in small type at the foot of the vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | No [serial number] Stadt Glatz. 25 ℈ L. SCHIRMER, GLATZ |
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Glatz was one of hundreds of German municipalities that issued small-denomination Notgeld during the postwar coin shortage of 1918–1921, when metal coinage had all but vanished from everyday commerce. Stadt Glatz's series was printed locally by L. Schirmer, which was typical of the smaller Silesian towns — no Berlin or Leipzig contract printer, just whatever the nearest reliable press could manage.
The town changed hands permanently after World War II under the Potsdam Agreement, becoming the Polish city of Kłodzko in 1945. Every trace of the German municipal administration that issued these notes was dissolved.