25 Pfennig Wartha

Wartha — now Bardo in southwestern Poland — was a minor Silesian pilgrimage town whose municipal government, like hundreds of German communes in 1921, was forced to print its own small-denomination scrip to compensate for the chronic shortage of Reichsbank coinage during the postwar inflation spiral. Grass, Barth & Comp. W. Friedrich was a well-established Breslau commercial printer with a substantial Notgeld output across Silesia, and the involvement of a named designer, A. Jung, is a minor distinction — many comparable issues of this denomination and period were produced anonymously from stock layouts.

The 1381.2-3/8 reference indicates this is one of multiple variants within the Wartha series.