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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Amt Seitenberg (Grafschaft Glatz), Lower Silesia |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Fünfundzwanzig Pfennige Gültig bis zum öffentlichen Aufruf Seitenberg (Grafsch. Glatz) d. 2. Sept. 1920 Der Amtsvorsteher GRASS, BARTH & COMP. (W. FRIEDRICH) BRESLAU |
| Reverse description | An orange arabesque underprint fills the field, framed by two vertical orange rules at the lateral margins. A bold dark green line-engraved vignette of a medieval stone watchtower with an adjacent low-roofed structure occupies the centre, flanked on each side by large bold numerals '25' with the abbreviation 'Pfg.' Gothic script legends appear at the top and bottom of the note identifying the issuing authority. |
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Seitenberg was a small administrative district (Amt) within Grafschaft Glatz — the County of Glatz — a historically distinct enclave in Lower Silesia with a complicated jurisdictional identity of its own. This note belongs to the vast wave of German municipal emergency money, Notgeld, that flooded circulation between 1919 and 1922 in response to chronic small-coin shortages following the First World War. Thousands of issuing authorities at the town and district level produced their own fractional notes during this period, and Grass, Barth & Comp. in Breslau was among the more active regional printers serving them.
Grafschaft Glatz became part of Poland in 1945 and is now Kotlina Kłodzka. The printer's city followed the same trajectory.