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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Reinerz (Lower Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette, signed by artist R. Jung at lower left, presents an allegorical scene at a mineral spring fountain: a bearded elder figure seated at the base of the spout holds a bowl, accompanied by a crouching youth, with the grand Kurhaus complex and wooded hills rendered in the background. The denomination '25 Pf.' appears in a decorative cartouche at upper left, while a text cartouche at lower right carries the town name and subtitle inscription. The entire composition is framed by a distinctive ornamental border of oval pearl-like motifs in blue and dark ink on an orange-tinted ground. |
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| Reverse lettering | Ans Vaterland ans teure schließ dich an! / Gültig bis einen Monat nach Ankündigung. / Der Magistrat / Reinerz d. 1.6.21. / Kreuzkirchgasse. |
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Reinerz — known today as Duszniki-Zdrój — was a spa town in Lower Silesia whose municipal authority issued this note as part of the vast Notgeld wave that followed Germany's post-WWI coin shortage. Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott A.G. in Glogau handled enormous volumes of these local emergency issues, supplying dozens of Silesian towns simultaneously, which occasionally makes attribution tricky when similar ornamental borders recur across issues from different municipalities.
The designer credit to R. Jung is atypically specific for a Kleinnotgeld piece — most small-denomination issues at this scale went uncredited.