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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Landkreises Liegnitz |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a harvest cornucopia overflowing with fruits and vegetables, rendered in polychrome letterpress, set against a wavy guilloche underprint in blue. The denomination numeral '25' appears in circular cartouches at all four corners, with decorative floral and agricultural border motifs in green and yellow. The issuing authority inscription arches across the upper portion in Gothic Fraktur script, and two manuscript signatures of district committee officials appear in the lower central field above the serial number. |
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| Reverse description | Left half occupied by a polychrome vignette of the Catholic church at Wahlstatt (Legnickie Pole), rendered in fine line engraving with a baroque tower, red-tiled roofline, and adjacent building, set against a pale green radiating underprint. The right half carries the denomination in large Gothic Fraktur numerals and script, with the series designation 'Serie II' at upper centre and a validity clause in Roman type below. |
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Liegnitz — now Legnica in southwestern Poland — was the administrative seat of a Prussian Landkreis whose finance committee (Kreisausschuss) issued this Notgeld during the acute small-coin shortage that paralyzed German retail commerce from around 1916 onward. District-level bodies like this one were authorized to fill the gap only because municipal and state institutions had already exhausted their own emergency issue limits. The Kreisausschuss issues are generally less documented than city issues from the same region, and many circulated only within the county's rural communities before being redeemed — or simply lost.