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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Glatz (City of Glatz), Magistrat |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Glatz Gutschein der Stadt Glatz über Fünfzig Pfennige Dieser Gutschein wird von allen städtischen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit mit Ablauf des 3. Kalender-Monats, der auf die Aufkündigung in den Glazer Zeitungen folgt Glatz, den 9. Oktober 1918 Der Magistrat |
| Reverse description | Printed in blue-grey on a pale green wave-pattern guilloche underprint, the reverse centres on an octagonal vignette presenting a panoramic townscape of Glatz: the hilltop fortress with its prominent clock tower at left and Baroque church spires at right, rendered in fine line engraving. The legend 'Stadt Glatz' in blackletter type is placed above the vignette, while bold denomination numerals '50' occupy the upper left and upper right corners. Two small heraldic shield devices are set in the lower corners, and the cautionary inscription 'Nicht biegen und nicht falten' runs along the lower margin in blackletter script. |
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Glatz — now Kłodzko in southwestern Poland — was a Silesian garrison town under Prussian and later German administration, and its municipal notgeld issues of 1918 reflect the acute coin shortage that hit German towns hard in the final year of the war. The city's magistrat, like hundreds of similar local authorities that year, was authorized to issue small-denomination emergency currency to keep retail trade moving as metal coinage disappeared from circulation.
The G16.1b designation within the Grabowski reference distinguishes this from closely related varieties in the same series — collector differentiation between these Glatz issues typically hinges on minor typographic or color variations rather than substantive design changes.