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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Namslau (Lower Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown and green Notgeld note with a fine guilloche border surrounding a central oval vignette of a courtyard facade of a notable Namslau civic building, rendered in a detailed linear engraving style. Large green numerals '25' flank the vignette on either side, with a circular legend in Gothic script running around the inner border. Below the vignette, the issuing authority designation 'der Magistrat' appears above three facsimile manuscript signatures, with the date 'Namslau 17. Dez. 1920' and the printer's imprint along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured paper reverse with a centrally placed diamond-shaped vignette printed in dark brown and green, containing a large ornate numeral '25' rendered in a florid, interlocking calligraphic style. The diamond cartouche is edged with a fine sawtooth guilloche border, with small decorative cross-hatch ornaments at each of the four cardinal points. |
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Namslau — now Namysłów in present-day Poland — was a small Lower Silesian market town, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it turned to Notgeld in 1920 to cover the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that persisted well after the armistice. Grass, Barth & Comp., operating under the W. Friedrich imprint in Breslau, printed enormous quantities of municipal Notgeld for Silesian towns during this period; their output was competent but high-volume, and Namslau's issue is firmly in that category.
The 1920 date places this in the second wave of German municipal emergency money, by which point many issues had become as much a local souvenir trade as a genuine monetary stopgap.