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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisstadt Leobschütz, Magistrat |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown tones on cream paper and carries two oval vignettes side by side within an elaborate scrollwork border: the left vignette presents a view of the German town hall (Deutsches Haus) of Leobschütz with its clock tower, accompanied by the curved inscription 'Deutsches Haus in deutscher Stadt'; the right vignette shows a winged angel figure standing atop a plinth, encircled by the motto 'Beschütze die Häuser, du Engel, wehre dem Flammentod.' The denomination '25' appears in the upper corners in Gothic numerals above the title 'Fünfundzwanzig Pf.' At the foot, a framed panel carries the Gothic text 'Notgeld der Kreisstadt Leobschütz. Der Magistrat:' followed by facsimile signatures and the validity clause 'Gültig bis 31.12.22,' with the printer's imprint 'Flemming-Wiskott A.-G. Glogau' at the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 Fünfundzwanzig Pf. 25 Deutsches Haus in deutscher Stadt Beschütze die Häuser, du Engel, wehre dem Flammentod NACHDRUCK VERBOTEN! Notgeld der Kreisstadt Leobschütz. Der Magistrat: Gültig bis 31.12.22. FLEMMING-WISKOTT A.-G. GLOGAU. |
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Leobschütz — now Głubczyce in southwestern Poland — was a Prussian administrative seat in Upper Silesia, and this note was issued amid the acute small-coin shortage that plagued German municipalities well into the early Weimar years. The 1921 plebiscite had just assigned the district to Germany rather than Poland, a result contested bitterly by Warsaw, and the region's economic life remained badly disrupted. Municipal Notgeld of this kind filled the gap that the Reichsbank simply could not.
Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau were prolific printers of Silesian emergency currency during this period, producing issues for dozens of regional towns simultaneously.