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25 Pfennig Niederschlesische Elektricitäts und Kleinbahn A.G.
| Issuer | Niederschlesische Elektricitäts- und Kleinbahn A.G. (Lower Silesian Electricity and Light Railway Company) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed emergency note on coarse beige paper stock, the face entirely occupied by typeset text within a double-ruled rectangular border. The denomination numeral '25' is set in a large bold typeface at centre, flanked by 'über' and 'Pfennige', surmounted by the heading 'Gutschein' in large display type; three lines of smaller justified text below state the conditions of use on the Waldenburger Kreisbahn, and the issuer's name appears in bold at the foot. The left edge bears a row of perforations indicating the note was originally bound in a booklet. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted on the same coarse beige paper stock as the obverse, bearing no text, vignette, or ornamental elements of any kind. Perforations along the right edge are visible, consistent with the note's origin as part of a bound booklet. |
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Niederschlesische Elektricitäts- und Kleinbahn A.G. was one of the combined utility and narrow-gauge railway operators that proliferated in Silesia before the First World War, running both local tram and light rail services alongside electricity distribution. During the hyperinflation of the early Weimar period, firms like this — strapped for small change just like everyone else — issued their own Notgeld to keep operations running when Reichsbank coinage had effectively vanished from circulation.
Corporate Notgeld from transport utilities is considerably scarcer than municipal issues, since print runs were smaller and tied to a specific captive workforce and customer base rather than a general population.