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25 Pfennig Stadtbank
| Issuer | Stadtbank Glogau |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | HERZOG KONRAD II. STADTBANK GLOGAU Zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus meinem Guthaben an den Inhaber 25 PFENNIG Glogau Konto E № 043282 FLEMMING – WISKOTT A. · G. GLOGAU |
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| Reverse lettering | FÜNFUNDZWANZIG · PFENNIG DIE UM DAS JAHR 1250 ERRICHTETE DOMKIRCHE D. R. G. M. 795679 |
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Glogau's municipal bank issued this note during the inflationary spiral of 1922, when German towns and cities were producing emergency small-change scrip — Kleingeldersatz — to compensate for the disappearing purchasing power of official coinage. The handmade paper substrate is an unusual choice for mass-issue notgeld and points to deliberate localism: Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott was a Glogau firm with deep roots in the regional printing and publishing trade.
Heinrich Schiestl, a prolific Würzburg artist frequently commissioned for notgeld design in this period, contributed work to dozens of municipal issues. His involvement here follows a pattern common to 1921–1922 issues where towns hired outside artists for decorative appeal while keeping production local.