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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Glogau (City of Glogau), Lower Silesia |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Green and brown Notgeld printed in letterpress. The central vignette, framed by a fine border, presents three Gothic sculptural figures — the three sacred statues formerly housed at the Odertor gate — rendered in a detailed woodcut-like style against a hatched background; flanking inscription bands run vertically along the left and right edges of the vignette, identifying the depicted works and their ecclesiastical context. The denomination "25 Pfennig" appears in framed cartouches at lower left and lower right, with "Glogau" and "Schlesien" in matching green-framed panels at upper left and upper right respectively; validity text and magistrate signatures with date "1. Dezbr. 1920" occupy the lateral panels. The printer's imprint "FLEMMING-WISKOTT A.G. GLOGAU" appears in the lower margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Glogau's 1920 notgeld issues came from one of the more interesting local pairings in Silesian emergency currency: Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott was a Glogau-based firm with genuine printing credentials, not a stopgap commercial printer pressed into service. Heinrich Schiestl, a Munich-based artist and woodcut specialist, contributed designs to dozens of notgeld series during this period and was among the more technically accomplished illustrators working in the genre.
The watermarked paper was atypical for municipal 25-pfennig issues of this denomination, where plain stock was the norm.