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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Gollnow (City of Gollnow) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Single-colour letterpress note printed in dark grey-black on plain paper, enclosed within a double-line border with a sawtooth inner rule. The issuer's name 'STADT GOLLNOW' appears in bold sans-serif capitals on a black banner at the top, below which the numeral '25' is set within an ornate circular guilloche vignette at left, with the denomination spelled out in Gothic blackletter script 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfennige' to the right. The date 'GOLLNOW, DEN 1. APRIL 1920.' and the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat.' appear in the lower portion, flanked by two facsimile manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 25 SIGILLVM CIVITATIS GOLNOW MAGNVM MAGISTRAT ZU GOLLNOW A 185 Zahlbar innerhalb 3 Monaten nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung. Der Magistrat. KREY U. SOMMERLAD · NIEDERSEDLITZ · DRESDEN |
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Gollnow — now Goleniów in northwestern Poland — issued this Notgeld during the severe small-change shortage that followed the First World War, when German municipalities were legally permitted to print their own emergency currency to fill the void left by hoarded and melted coinage. The printer, Krey und Sommerlad of Niedersedlitz near Dresden, produced Notgeld for dozens of municipal clients during this period and operated essentially as a commercial job printer rather than a security press.
The G30.4b reference suggests multiple varieties exist within the Gollnow 25 Pfennig series — likely differing in paper stock, ink shade, or serial numbering convention. Worth identifying carefully before cataloging.