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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadthauptkasse Hohenfriedeberg (City Treasury of Hohenfriedeberg) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a finely engraved view of the Protestant church (Protest. Kirche) of Hohenfriedeberg, surrounded by trees, executed in a line-engraving style on a pale beige ground. The issuer's title in ornate Gothic script, "Die Stadt Hauptkasse Hohenfriedeberg", arches across the upper centre, while the denomination "25 Pfennig" appears in decorative letterpress panels at the upper left and right. The lower margin contains three panels bearing the account number "Konto 3 C", the issuing authority inscription "Hohenfriedeberg der Magistrat" with a manuscript signature, and a handwritten serial number at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a detailed letterpress vignette of the Hohenfriedeberg market square (Rathaus mit Ring), with the town hall and post office building rendered in fine cross-hatched line work across the full width of the note. The town's heraldic shield, bearing the letters "W W" on a divided field, occupies the upper left corner. A border of repeating trefoil (clover) ornaments in dark ink on a beige ground frames the entire composition, and the denomination numeral "25" appears in circular cartouches at the lower left and right corners. |
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Hohenfriedeberg — now Dobromierz in southwestern Poland — was a small Silesian market town whose name carried outsized military weight: Frederick the Great's decisive 1745 victory over the Austro-Saxon forces was fought on its doorstep. The town's treasury issued this 25 Pfennig Notgeld during the inflationary spiral of 1922, when chronic small-coin shortages forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own emergency fractional currency. The Stadthauptkasse had no printing infrastructure of its own; these notes were almost certainly produced by one of the regional commercial printers supplying the Silesian Notgeld trade wholesale.
Hohenfriedeberg's issues are modestly scarce — the town's population was small, redemption rates were high, and surviving quantities reflect that.