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25 Pfennig Buchhandlung Alfred Adolph
| Issuer | Buchhandlung Alfred Adolph, Tarnowitz |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 76 × 49 mm |
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| Obverse description | The note is divided into three horizontal bands in orange-red and grey. The upper orange-red band carries the issuer's name in bold blackletter script. The central grey panel bears a vignette of a curved row of upright books forming an arc, flanked by a two-line literary aphorism in Fraktur script above and a redemption notice below. The lower orange-red band states the face value in large blackletter type. |
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| Obverse lettering | Buchhandlung Alfred Adolph, Tarnowitz Ein Haus ohne Bücher ist wie ein Zimmer ohne Fenster. Schenke Bücher! Einlösung erfolgt jeder Zeit. ~ Gut für 25 Pfennig ~ |
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Tarnowitz — now Tarnowskie Góry in southern Poland — was part of Upper Silesia, a region whose political fate was being decided by plebiscite in March 1921 when this note was almost certainly printed. The area's notgeld output that year was enormous, partly practical and partly propagandist, as German businesses flooded the zone with locally-issued scrip to assert economic normalcy under German administration.
Louis Koch in Halberstadt was a competent provincial printer with a solid notgeld client list. Buchhandlung Alfred Adolph was a bookseller — an unusual issuer even by the loose standards of 1921 emergency coinage.