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25 Pfennig Stadtbank
| Issuer | Stadtbank Striegau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 80 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black, blue, and red on white paper, with ornate Art Nouveau-style lateral columns bearing floral and geometric motifs framing the central field. At upper centre, a heraldic shield vignette depicts a bearded saint holding a key and a sword, flanked by unfurled banners against a foliate background, with the designer's name 'BRUNO HANDKE' inscribed below. The denomination numeral '25' appears in bold red in octagonal cartouches at each upper corner, while the issuer name 'Stadt-Bank Striegau in Schles.' and the value in full Gothic script 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfennige' are set in the central text field above the issue date, facsimile board signatures, and a printed serial number. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is executed in black, blue, and red, centred on a large arched vignette of the Striegau town hall with its distinctive Gothic tower, before which a busy market scene with figures, stalls, and a dog is rendered in fine line work; the artist's name 'BRUNO HANDKE' appears below the vignette. The denomination numeral '25' is repeated in red within ornate cartouches at the upper left and right corners, flanked by decorative floral sprays, and the Striegau civic arms — a shield bearing crossed tools — are placed at the base of the central arch. Redemption and validity notices in Gothic script are set in blue panels to either side of the central vignette. |
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Striegau's municipal bank issued this note during the Kleingeldschein period, when a nationwide coin shortage — exacerbated by postwar hoarding and metal scarcity — forced hundreds of German towns to print their own low-denomination emergency paper. The sheer volume of these local issues means most are common; what distinguishes individual pieces is typically the printer or designer, and Handke was a locally active Silesian graphic artist whose work appears across several Striegau issues from this period.
Striegau itself passed to Poland in 1945 and was renamed Strzegom — most surviving examples of this issue left the region in German hands before that transition.