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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Glogau (Lower Silesia) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Tan and green Notgeld note with a panoramic silhouette vignette of the Glogau city skyline rendered in green ink across the upper portion. At centre, the denomination numeral '25' appears in large white script within a dark octagonal rosette with a dotted border, with 'PFENNIGE' lettered below; flanking shield cartouches carry the validity clause and the issuing authority legend with two facsimile signatures of Der Magistrat respectively. The series designation 'Reihe VI' appears at lower left in red, with the serial number at lower right, also in red. |
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| Reverse description | Tan and brown note with a finely cross-hatched guilloche underprint filling the field. At centre, an elaborate baroque cartouche surrounds the municipal coat of arms of Glogau, surmounted at the apex by a crowned Madonna figure with a radiate nimbus. The denomination numeral '25' is repeated at left and right in white within matching dark octagonal medallions with dotted borders, connected to the central cartouche by decorative curved banners. |
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Glogau's 25 Pfennig Notgeld from 1920 was printed locally by Carl Flemming & Wiskott, a Glogau-based printing and publishing house with deep roots in the town — the kind of arrangement that was common in Silesian municipal issues, where civic pride and practical necessity aligned. The Reichsmark system was creaking under postwar dislocation, and small-denomination coin had effectively vanished from circulation, forcing hundreds of German municipalities to issue their own emergency scrip to keep local commerce moving.
Carl Flemming had been operating in Glogau since the nineteenth century, which meant the city had a capable printer on its doorstep rather than outsourcing to Berlin or Leipzig.