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25 Pfennig Handelskammer
| Issuer | Handelskammer Hirschberg (Chamber of Commerce, Hirschberg, Lower Silesia) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown and blue on tan paper with a scrollwork underprint filling the outer field. A rectangular central vignette, framed by a serrated top border, presents a woodcut-style illustration of a figure sledging down a snow-covered slope with a conifer forest in the background. The denomination '25 Pfennige' appears in large Gothic script flanking the vignette on both sides, and a two-line verse in Gothic blackletter is inscribed below the central scene. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 Pfennige Die Stämme sinken, die Luft weht kalt Doch den Enkeln ergrünt ein neuer Wald. |
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Hirschberg — now Jelenia Góra in southwest Poland — was a major center of the Silesian textile trade, and its Chamber of Commerce issued this Notgeld during the severe small-change shortage that persisted well into 1920 as Germany's wartime coin metal policies left daily commerce functionally paralyzed. Handelskammer issues occupy an odd institutional space: not municipal emergency scrip, not private merchant tokens, but quasi-official commercial body paper with genuine local authority behind it.
The DeNG reference places this firmly in the documented Notgeld corpus for the region. Hirschberg Chamber issues from this period are not rare but seldom appear in quantity, likely reflecting modest original print runs tied to specific redemption windows.