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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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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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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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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über 25 Pfennige zur Fahrt auf der Waldenburger Kreisbahn nach dem z. Zt. gültigen Tarif. Gutscheine sind ungültig, falls nicht der dazu gehörige Umschlag vorgezeigt wird. Niederschlesische Elektricitäts- und Kleinbahn-A.-G. (Translation: Voucher for 25 pfennigs for travel on the Waldenburg District Railway according to the currently valid tariff. Vouchers are invalid unless the appropriate envelope is presented. Lower Silesian Electricity and Light Railway Company.) |
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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.