25 Pfennig Sparkasse

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.