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25 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Greiffenberg, City of Greiffenberg in Schlesien |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette by Schiestl shows the city arms with a knight battling a griffin, framed by baroque scrollwork and flanking eagles in brown and gold. Corner cartouches read '25 Pf.'; redemption text and Sparkasse Verwaltungsrat date and signatures occupy lateral panels. |
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| Reverse description | Full-width intaglio-style vignette in brown shows Greiffenberg aldermen before Frederick the Great in 1785, flanked by decorative columns. Denomination '25' in red occupies ornamental corner cartouches; narrative inscription panels appear above and below the central scene. |
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Greiffenberg in Schlesien — now Gryfów Śląski in Poland — was a small Silesian town that, like hundreds of German municipalities in 1920, found itself printing its own emergency fractional currency because the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough small-denomination coins. The postwar inflation was already grinding through everyday commerce well before the hyperinflationary collapse of 1923, and Sparkassen across Silesia stepped in as de facto mints.
Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau were among the most active regional printers of Notgeld, handling commissions from dozens of local issuers. Heinz Schiestl, a Würzburg-based graphic artist with strong ties to German folk art and woodcut traditions, contributed designs to numerous Notgeld series during this period.