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25 Pfennig Stadtsparkasse
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Bolkenhain |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a large central vignette of Bolkoburg (Bolkenhain Castle) in Silesia rendered in a warm ochre and blue palette, with figures in period costume in the foreground at the base of the craggy hillside. The denomination numeral 25 appears in large gold figures on both the left and right margins, flanked by intricate foliate guilloche side panels; an owl in a halo occupies the upper-left corner roundel and a raven the upper-right, while heraldic shield devices — a jester's mask and an eagle — appear in the lower corners. Below the central vignette, three columns of verse text in Gothic script are set within a pale panel. |
| Reverse lettering | Bolkoburg in Schlesien 25 25 Mein Städtel, mein Städtel, wie hab ich dich gern! Dein Wappen so herrlich mit Sonn, Mond u. Stern! Die Lauben, Gewölbe von Großväter Hand. Die Burg auf dem Berge schaut trutzig ins Land. Und grüßet die Täler, die waldigen Höhen. Die ragen und bleiben so jung und so schön. D. R. G. M. 795679 |
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Bolkenhain was a small Silesian town — Bolków today, in southwestern Poland — and its Stadtsparkasse issued this 25 Pfennig note during the height of the German notgeld fever of 1922, when municipal and commercial institutions across the Weimar Republic were printing their own emergency small change to compensate for coinage shortages driven by accelerating inflation. Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau was one of the more prolific regional printers of Silesian notgeld, producing issues for dozens of local authorities across the province.