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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Handelskammer zu Hirschberg (Chamber of Commerce of Hirschberg, Silesia) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain salmon-pink tinted note with text-only layout in Gothic blackletter script throughout. The denomination '25 Pf.' appears in large bold numerals at upper left and upper right flanking the word 'Gutschein', beneath which a bold red horizontal band carries the legend 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig' in Gothic type. The body of the note sets out the validity date, the guaranteeing authorities, and multiple manuscript signatures of the issuing magistrates. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue-grey and green, with a bold ornamental border composed of vertical columnar rules and foliate vine motifs terminating in circular guilloche medallions at each corner, each bearing the numeral '25'. The denomination 'Pfennig' is set in large Gothic blackletter across both the top and bottom rails of the border. The central field carries a finely engraved panoramic vignette of the Hirschberg valley and the Giant Mountains (Riesengebirge) as seen from the town, rendered in pale green tones. |
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Hirschberg — now Jelenia Góra in southwestern Poland — was a textile and glass manufacturing center in Prussian Silesia. This note is Notgeld, emergency municipal scrip issued by local chambers of commerce and municipal bodies across Germany and Austria when small-denomination coin vanished from circulation in the postwar economic chaos of 1919. The Handelskammer (Chamber of Commerce) rather than the city council was the issuing authority here, which was not unusual — any sufficiently credible local institution could sponsor a series.
Silesian Notgeld from this period was often redeemed within months and destroyed, making intact survivors more common in collector sets than in genuinely circulated condition.