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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Handelskammer Hirschberg (Chamber of Commerce, Hirschberg, Silesia) |
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| Size | 86 × 53 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in olive-green on cream paper and carries a central landscape vignette of the Riesengebirge mountain range rendered in a light-toned engraved style, with coniferous forest in the foreground and rolling peaks receding into the distance. A decorative black border frames the design, with stylised laurel-leaf columns at the sides and circular medallions at each corner bearing the numeral '25' in white on black. The denomination 'Pfennig' is lettered in bold Gothic blackletter across both the upper and lower horizontal border bands. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 Pfennig 25 25 Pfennig 25 |
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Hirschberg — now Jelenia Góra in southwest Poland — was a textile and glass manufacturing center in Prussian Silesia. This 25 Pfennig note is Notgeld, emergency municipal scrip issued during the coin shortage that gripped Germany from around 1916 onward, when metal was diverted to the war effort and small change vanished from circulation. The Chamber of Commerce, rather than the municipal government, issued this particular piece, which was common in commercially active towns where business associations moved faster than local bureaucracies.
Notgeld of this type was typically redeemable at face value for a limited period, after which issuers were legally obligated to redeem outstanding notes — though not all did.