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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreis-Kommunalkasse des Netzekreises, Schönlanke |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Orange-tinted notgeld on cream paper stock, with the denomination 'Gut für 25 Pfennig' in bold blackletter type across the upper register, flanked by decorative corner ornaments, and the restrictive clause 'nur für den inneren Verkehr' immediately below. A line-art vignette of a steam locomotive at a station fills the lower half of the note. Two manuscript signatures appear in the central and lower registers, representing the chairman of the district committee and the Kreis-Kommunalkasse, with the printed issue date 'Schönlanke Otbr., 16. Juni 1920' beneath. |
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| Reverse description | The verso carries no independent printed design; it presents as a faint ghost impression of the obverse elements showing through the thin cream paper, including traces of the locomotive vignette and blackletter inscriptions in pale grey, characteristic of single-sided notgeld printing on lightweight wartime paper stock. |
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Schönlanke sits at the center of a particularly compressed political moment. The town — now Trzcianka — was part of the Posen region awarded to the newly reconstituted Polish state under the Treaty of Versailles, but the formal transfer of administration dragged into 1920, leaving local German authorities still functioning and still issuing emergency currency. This note is a product of that interregnum: the Kreis-Kommunalkasse issuing small-denomination Notgeld for a district that was, legally, already Polish.
The practical driver was the nationwide small-coin shortage that plagued Germany from 1919 onward. Local issuance was common, but notes from administrations in the ceding eastern territories carry an additional layer — they circulated for a very short window before the issuing authority ceased to exist entirely.