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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat Silberberg (Lower Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 5/6#S76.1a |
| Obverse description | Printed in orange and dark brown on white paper, the obverse is dominated by a large central diamond-shaped vignette bearing the denomination numeral '25' and the legend in Gothic script. The dark brown border is filled with a stylised woodcut pattern of oak leaves, lightning bolts, and small square ornaments radiating outward from the central lozenge. Below the diamond, the place name, date, issuing authority, and two signatories are inscribed in bold Fraktur lettering. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 Pfennige zahlt die Kämmereikasse Silberberg innerhalb von 3 Monaten nach öffentlicher Aufforderung. SILBERBERG, 1.VII.1920 Der Magistrat JANEK BENGNER ROESLER |
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Silberberg — now Srebrna Góra in southwestern Poland — was a minor Silesian garrison town best known for its 18th-century Prussian fortress rather than any commercial significance. Like hundreds of similarly small German municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the postwar currency chaos of 1919–1921 largely because the national coinage supply had collapsed and small transactions had become physically impossible without local substitutes.
The two-signature requirement — Janek Bengner alongside Roesler — is worth noting: dual authorization on low-denomination municipal scrip of this period was not universal, and the name Bengner suggests a civic official of likely Silesian German extraction, though the precise office is unrecorded in standard references.
Silberberg's Notgeld series is thinly documented.