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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat Krappitz (City of Krappitz, Upper Silesia) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress Notgeld note with an ornate border of scrollwork and decorative cornucopia motifs at each corner. At centre-left, the municipal coat of arms of Krappitz is set within a shield vignette, flanked by the large blackletter denomination inscription 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig'; to the right, a vignette of a local industrial building with a tall chimney stack forms the background underprint. The issuing authority 'Magistrat Krappitz' appears in blackletter script below the denomination, with validity and redemption clauses set in smaller blackletter text above and below the central design. |
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| Protection description | A municipal stamp was applied to the reverse as an authentication and validation mark. |
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Krappitz (now Krapkowice, Poland) issued this Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany from around 1916 onward, when the wartime economy drove metal of any practical denomination out of circulation almost entirely. Municipal Notgeld of this kind had no formal central authorization — local magistrates simply printed what they needed and hoped the community would honor it.
The stamp security feature is typical of smaller Silesian issuers who lacked access to more sophisticated printing infrastructure. A hand-applied or pre-printed official stamp was the cheapest available fraud deterrent, and for hyperlocal scrip it was generally sufficient.