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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreiskommunalkasse des Netzekreises, Schönlanke |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ochre letterpress note with a panoramic vignette across the upper portion showing a town skyline with industrial chimneys emitting smoke, church steeples, and factory buildings. The central text in Fraktur script states the denomination, flanked by foliate guilloche ornaments, with the issuing authority, place of issue, and date inscribed in the lower portion. Two manuscript signatures appear in the lower centre, attributable to officials of the Kreisausschuss and the Kreiskommunalkasse. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse in off-white paper, displaying show-through of the obverse text and vignette in mirror image, with faint decorative foliate underprint elements visible across the surface. No dedicated reverse design is present, consistent with the utilitarian production standard of German Notgeld emergency currency of this period. |
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The Netzekreis (Netz District) was one of the territories transferred from Germany to the newly reconstituted Poland under the Treaty of Versailles in 1920. Schönlanke — renamed Trzcianka under Polish administration — sat directly in the transition zone. This local emergency note, a Serienschein issued by the district's communal cashier's office, almost certainly reflects the administrative and monetary chaos of that handover period rather than the chronic small-coin shortage that drove most German Notgeld production.
Notes from authorities that ceased to exist mid-transition are among the harder pieces to document. The issuing body dissolved when German jurisdiction ended.