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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Glatz |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned note printed in blue, green, and orange, with three ornate oval cartouches arranged horizontally across the centre, each framed by elaborate foliate and scrollwork borders. The central cartouche carries the denomination numeral '25' and the word 'Pfennige' over an orange ground with a white lion watermark-style underprint; the left cartouche states the validity clause and the right bears the facsimile signature of Der Magistrat. The Gothic-script legend 'Notgeld der Stadt Glatz' arches across the top, and the printer's imprint 'L. Schirmer Glatz' appears at the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Aus vergangenen Tagen. |
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Glatz — now Kłodzko in southwestern Poland — was a predominantly German-speaking administrative center in Lower Silesia, and like hundreds of German municipalities it resorted to locally printed Notgeld during the postwar shortage of small change. The Magistrat issued this 25 Pfennig note as emergency scrip, authorized by the town council rather than any central banking authority. L. Schirmer was a local printing house, not a specialist security printer, which shows in the comparatively modest production values typical of small-town Silesian issues.
The printer's Glatz address is worth noting: after 1945, the entire German population was expelled and the town was resettled with Polish inhabitants. Most surviving examples of this issue remain in German collector hands for obvious demographic reasons.