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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde-Kasse Neudorf, Kreis Kattowitz (Silesia) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Plain salmon-pink card stock printed in black, with the denomination numeral "25" repeated in large type at each of the four corners. A serial number line reading "No ___" with a dotted rule occupies the centre field, and a circular official ink stamp of the Gemeinde Neudorf, Kreis Kattowitz is applied below, enclosing the printer's imprint "Franz Knote, Gleiwitz" within the stamp's interior. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 No GEMEINDE NEUDORF KREIS KATTOWITZ Franz Knote, Gleiwitz. |
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Neudorf bei Kattowitz was a small industrial commune on the eastern edge of the Silesian coalfield, and this note is a product of the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany from 1916 onward — silver coinage had been hoarded or melted, and the Reichsbank could not keep low-denomination coin in circulation. Municipal treasuries across Silesia began printing their own Notgeld rather than wait for central relief that rarely came in sufficient quantities.
Franz Knote was a Gleiwitz commercial printer with no particular specialization in security work, which is why the official stamp functions as the primary — essentially the only — authentication mechanism. Without it, the note was just paper.