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25 Pfennig Goldberg in Schlesien
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Goldberg in Schlesien |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black and gold on light green paper, centered on an elaborate baroque heraldic vignette: the Goldberg civic coat of arms supported by rampant lions, surmounted by a spread eagle, with decorative scrollwork and foliate cartouche. Denomination numerals '25' appear in circular guilloche medallions at lower left and right. A horizontal gold bar underprint crosses the upper portion of the design, with the heading 'Kriegsnotgeld Goldberg i. Schl.' above and the validity inscription 'Gültig bis zum 31. Dez. 1920' below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on light green paper and carries a central woodcut-style vignette set within a rectangular frame, illustrating a group of figures gathered before a Gothic church tower in a winter night scene — a historical allegory referencing the seven last citizens of Goldberg on Christmas Eve 1553. Denomination numerals '25' are repeated in ornamental circular medallions at each corner within a guilloche border, and a serial number is printed vertically at the left margin. |
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Goldberg in Schlesien — now Złotoryja in southwestern Poland — issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany from 1916 onward, as silver and copper coins were withdrawn and hoarded. Municipal authorities across the Reich were left to fill the gap themselves, producing thousands of locally printed Notgeld issues of wildly uneven quality.
J. Fiedler Nachf. in nearby Grüneberg (today Zielona Góra) was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist banknote house. That matters: the note lacks the security features of central issues, and paper quality in provincial runs from this period varies considerably within the same batch.