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25 Pfennig Stadtbank
| Issuer | Stadtbank Striegau (City Bank of Striegau) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a left-facing portrait bust of Frederick the Great in intaglio style, set within a circular frame wreathed in ivy, flanked on either side by hourglass vignettes against a warm ochre underprint. Denomination numerals "25" appear in decorative cartouches at upper left and upper right, with the artist's name "BRUNO HANDKE" inscribed across the upper margin. A pink panel at the base carries the full text inscription, three facsimile signatures of the Stadtbank board, the issue date, and the historical reference to the Battle of Hohenfriedeberg (1745). |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette within an arched teal panel shows a tall memorial cross on a stepped pedestal, rendered in dark silhouette against a turquoise sky with stars, flanked by dense ivy foliage. Denomination cartouches "25 Pfg." occupy the upper corners, and the caption below the arch reads "INSCHRIFT AM KREUZ AUF DEM SPITZBERG." Two teal text panels flank a central red-bordered inscription panel at the base, with the designer's name "BRUNO HANDKE" printed at the foot. |
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Striegau — now Strzegów in southwestern Poland — was a textile and granite-quarrying town in Silesia, and this 1921 issue belongs to the enormous wave of German municipal emergency money (Notgeld) that flooded circulation after the First World War, when small-denomination coins effectively vanished from commerce. The Stadtbank commissioned F. A. Brockhaus of Leipzig, a firm better known for encyclopedia publishing than banknote printing, though Brockhaus maintained a respected printing and engraving operation that handled numerous Notgeld commissions during this period.
Bruno Handke's design credit is unusually specific for a municipal issue of this type — most Notgeld commissioners left artists uncredited.