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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Waldenburg in Schlesien (City of Waldenburg, Lower Silesia) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue on cream paper, the reverse is dominated by the word 'NOTGELD' rendered in two rows of large decorative letters, each letter set within an ornate square panel filled with intricate interlaced guilloche and foliate motifs in the Art Nouveau style. The denomination numeral '25' with 'Pf' appears at the upper left and upper right flanking the text; a two-line validity notice in blackletter script occupies a panel across the top of the design. |
| Reverse lettering | Dieser Notgeldschein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Ankündigung in den Waldenburger Zeitungen NOTGELD 25 Pf |
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Waldenburg was the center of the Lower Silesian coal-mining district, and the city's notgeld issues of 1920 came directly out of the chronic small-change shortage that followed the First World War — the Reichsbank simply could not produce enough low-denomination coin to keep local commerce moving. The Schlesische Bergwacht, the printer here, was a local press rather than a specialist banknote firm, which is exactly what you'd expect from a municipal emergency issue of this type and period.
Lower Silesian notgeld in general suffered high attrition in circulation — coal-country workers spent these hard and fast. The Schlesische Bergwacht imprint is the detail worth noting for attribution purposes.