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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Patschkau (City of Patschkau, Silesia) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Kriegsgeld 25 Pfennig Verbürgt durch die Stadtgemeinde Patschkau • Kriegsjahr 1918. Der Magistrat (Translation: War Money 25 Pfennig Guaranteed by the city of Patschkau • War year 1918 The Magistrate) |
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| Reverse lettering | Dieser Schein verfällt, wann er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach öffentlicher Aufforderung des Magistrats bei der Stadthauptkasse zu Patschkau eingelöst wird. (Translation: This note expires if it is not redeemed within one month of public notice by the Magistrate at the city main treasury of Patschkau.) |
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Patschkau (now Paczków, Poland) was a small Silesian town that issued this note as part of the broader Notgeld wave that swept German municipalities from 1914 onward, driven by a wartime hoarding of metal coinage that left small transactions effectively unworkable. By 1918 the shortage was acute enough that even minor Silesian towns with no real banking infrastructure were producing their own emergency fractional denominations.
Stadtgemeinde issues like this one carried the municipal authority's guarantee rather than any bank's — legally thin, but practically accepted within the issuing community.