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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Mallmitz (Lower Silesia), Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Grey-toned Notgeld note with a fine foliate border frame enclosing a central bird's-eye view vignette of the Internation. Metauw. Mallmitz industrial complex, identified by the curved inscription above the factory rooftops with tall chimneys, printed with a warm brownish tint underprint. Denomination numerals '25' at upper left and 'Pfg' at upper right flank the vignette, while a lower panel in Fraktur script reads 'Mallmitz am Bober, im Juli 1921 / Der Gemrei. de Vorstand: Deutsch', with the validity clause 'GÜLTIG BIS 1 MONAT NACH AUFRUF' at the base; the motto '···ARBEIT UND FLEIS, ERHÄLT DEN PREIS···' runs along the top margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 Pfg DIE MÖWE NIKOLSBURG MARKGRAF V. DONNA MALLMITZ STAMMSCHLOSS MALLMITZ |
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Mallmitz is a small Lower Silesian village — now Małomice, Poland — and this 25 Pfennig notgeld is one of hundreds of nearly identical municipal issues that flooded Germany between 1919 and 1922 when small change vanished from circulation entirely. The Reichsbank had neither the capacity nor the inclination to supply coin to villages of this size, so local authorities printed their own.
The DeNG reference covers two distinct design variants under the same issuer, which is common for Mallmitz issues of this date and may reflect a second print run to meet continued demand.