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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Glatz |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-pink Notgeld note printed in dark blue and green, with a salmon-orange ground and a decorative border of interlaced foliate scrollwork. Three ornamental oval cartouches are arranged horizontally at centre: the left cartouche carries the validity inscription, the central cartouche bears the numeral '25' over the word 'Pfennige' against a rampant lion watermark-style underprint, and the right cartouche carries the issuing authority inscription with two manuscript signatures below. The title legend 'Notgeld der Stadt Glatz' is set in bold Fraktur script across the upper portion, and the printer's imprint 'L. Schirmer, Glatz' appears at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Glatz 25 Pfennige Gültig bis 3 Monate nach Aufruf Der Magistrat L. Schirmer, Glatz. |
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Glatz — known today as Kłodzko — was still firmly within the German Reich in 1920, situated in the Silesian borderlands that would remain German until expulsion and redrawing after 1945. This notgeld was issued by the city magistrate during the acute small-change shortage that followed the First World War, when municipal authorities across Germany flooded the market with locally printed emergency issues to keep retail commerce moving.
L. Schirmer was a local Glatz printer, and the note never circulated far — these municipal fractional pieces were inherently parochial instruments, redeemable only within the issuing town's jurisdiction.