25 Pfennig Kreissparkasse

Steinau an der Oder — now Ścinawa in southwestern Poland — was a small Silesian district center whose Kreissparkasse issued this Notgeld note during the post-WWI currency emergency that flooded Germany with locally produced emergency coinage and scrip. The Geographisches Institut Paul Baron in Liegnitz handled a considerable volume of Silesian Notgeld work during this period, and their output for minor district savings banks like Steinau was strictly functional.

Liegnitz itself is now Legnica, also in Poland — a reminder of how thoroughly the political geography of Silesia was redrawn after 1945.