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25 Pfennig Landkreis Schweidnitz
| Issuer | Kreissparkasse Schweidnitz |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Hugo Reisse, Schweidnitz |
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| Obverse lettering | Auf diesen Gutschein zahlt die Kreissparkasse in Schweidnitz jedem Einlieferer Sünfundzwanzig Pfennig Schweidnitz am 25. September 1920 Der Verwaltungsrat: 25 Pf. KREISSPARKASSE Gültig bis zum Ablauf desjenigen Monats, der auf den Monat folgt, an dem der Verwaltungsrat zur Rücklieferung an die Kreissparkasse aufgefordert hat. HUGO REISSE SCHWEIDNITZ |
| Reverse description | Brown note with a full-width landscape vignette in letterpress style, showing a panoramic view of a broad, gently rolling mountain — likely the Zobten (Ślęża) — set against an open sky, with fields in the foreground. The denomination '25' appears in large numerals in the upper left and upper right corners within plain rectangular frames, and a Gothic blackletter title arc reads 'Gutschein über Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig' across the top. The issuer name 'Landkreis Schweidnitz' is inscribed in Gothic script along the lower margin. |
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Schweidnitz notgeld from this period came out of the severe small-change shortage that crippled everyday commerce across Germany in the early Weimar years — federal coinage production simply could not keep up with demand, and district savings banks like the Kreissparkasse were among the institutions authorized to fill the gap locally. Hugo Reisse was a regional printer with no particular prestige; these were functional emergency instruments, not collector pieces, though philatelic demand arrived quickly enough that some issues were printed in quantities well beyond genuine commercial need.
Schweidnitz itself — now Świdnica in southwestern Poland — was transferred to Poland under the Potsdam Agreement in 1945, which severed the institutional continuity that might otherwise have preserved archival records of exact print runs.