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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Der Magistrat, Trebnitz in Schlesien (City of Trebnitz, Silesia) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in warm brown and green tones and carries a bold Gothic blackletter heading 'Kreis-Stadt Trebnitz i. Schlesien' within a red-ruled panel at the top. Two circular vignettes, each wreathed in an elaborate oak-leaf garland, present engraved townscape views: the left medallion shows the Rathaus (town hall) with its clock tower, while the right medallion shows a large domed church with a tall baroque tower, likely the collegiate church of St. Bartholomäus. The denomination '25' appears in green at the lower left and right corners, with the spelled-out value 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig' across the lower register, and marginal aphorisms in small type run vertically along both side borders. |
| Reverse lettering | Kreis=Stadt Trebnitz i. Schlesien. 25 Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig 25 25 IST DIE KLEINGELDNOT ZU ENDE VERSCHWINDE RASCH IN SAMMLERHÄNDE! |
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Trebnitz — now Trzebnica in southwestern Poland — was a small Silesian market town whose municipal authority issued this note as part of the widespread German Kleingeldscheine phenomenon of 1918, when wartime metal shortages had stripped coins almost entirely from everyday commerce. Hundreds of German municipalities contracted private printers to produce emergency fractional paper. A. Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu, a printing firm in the Bavarian Allgäu region, handled production for a number of these small civic issuers simultaneously.
Trebnitz's Notgeld series was modest in ambition and short in circulation life — German currency reform in the early 1920s swept most of these municipal issues off the market within a few years of issue.