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25 Pfennig Kaufmännischer Verein
| Issuer | Stadt Oels (Kaufmännischer Verein), Lower Silesia |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue and beige notgeld note with a dense guilloche-patterned central cartouche on a dark blue ground, framing the denomination inscription in Gothic blackletter script. The issuer name 'Stadt Oels i. Schl.' and date appear above the denomination text, with a manuscript-style signature below. Square blue corner ornaments bearing the numeral '25' flank the top corners, while letter 'B' appears in the lower corners; a validity clause runs along the top and bottom margins. |
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| Reverse lettering | OELS·SCHL 25 PFENNIG |
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Oels was a small administrative town in Lower Silesia, and this 25 Pfennig piece was issued not by the municipality itself but by the Kaufmännischer Verein — the local merchants' association — during the acute small-change shortage that plagued Germany in the early Weimar years. Retailers and trade guilds across the region took matters into their own hands when official coinage simply wasn't reaching circulation fast enough.
Graß, Barth & Comp., operating under the W. Friedrich imprint in Breslau, handled enormous volumes of Notgeld for Silesian issuers during this period. A competent regional printer, not a prestige house.