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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Frankenstein in Schlesien, Magistrat der Stadt |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Brown and teal notgeld note with an ornamental geometric guilloche underprint covering the entire field. The heading is set in bold black Fraktur script reading "Frankensteiner Notgeld", followed by the voucher text in Roman type. The denomination "Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig" is overprinted in large teal letterpress numerals "25" at lower left and right. The issuance date "Frankenstein i. Schl. d. 10. Dez. 1920" appears centrally, below which three manuscript signatures of the Magistrat are inscribed, with the validity clause "Gültig bis 3 Monate nach Aufkündigung" at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | GEMEINSAMER ARBEIT FOLGT BESSERE ZEIT 25 Pfennig |
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Frankenstein in Schlesien — now Ząbkowice Śląskie in southwestern Poland — issued this Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in 1919–1921. Municipal and commercial issuers flooded circulation with low-denomination paper scrip precisely because coins had largely vanished from everyday trade, hoarded for their metal content or simply not produced in sufficient quantities by a mint system still recovering from wartime dislocation.
The Magistrat series from Frankenstein is not among the more elaborately printed Schlesien issues — no collector-targeted artwork series, just functional municipal scrip.