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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lewin (Kreis Glatz), City of |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into two fields: a bold red panel on the left bears the large numeral '25' in dark blue with white outline, framed by the Gothic text 'Gutschein über' above and 'Pfennig' below. The right field, printed on cream stock in dark blue letterpress, carries the issuing authority 'Stadt Lewin Kreis Glatz' in decorative script at the top, followed by a serial number, a redemption clause in German Gothic script stating that encashment is to be made at the city treasury within three months of public notice, and the place-date 'Lewin, den 31. Juli 1920' with a facsimile signature above the legend 'Der Magistrat'. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 25 L. SCHIRMER, GLATZ |
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Lewin (today Lądek-Zdrów) was a small spa town in the Glatz valley, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1920 it issued its own Kleingeldersatz — substitute small change — because the postwar coin shortage had made low-denomination currency functionally unavailable. These municipal Notgeld issues were authorized locally rather than by the Reichsbank, which gave printers like L. Schirmer in nearby Glatz a steady stream of small civic commissions throughout the inflation period.
Glatz itself would remain German until 1945, when the region was transferred to Poland under the Potsdam Agreement and systematically resettled.