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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Trebnitz (Lower Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 61 × 47 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Dieser Gutschein wird von den städtischen Kassen in Trebnitz in Schlesien in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit drei Monate nach Aufkündigung im Trebnitzer Anzeiger. Der Magistrat. Trebnitz in Schles. 5.II.1920. GRASS, BARTH & COMP. W. FRIEDRICH BRESLAU. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pf Kreisstadt Trebnitz i. Schl. |
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Trebnitz — now Trzebnica in southwestern Poland — was among hundreds of German municipalities that issued notgeld during the postwar coin shortage. The Grass, Barth & Comp. imprint, operating under the W. Friedrich trade name in Breslau, handled an enormous volume of small-town emergency issues across Silesia in this period; their output was prolific enough that their production quality was uneven, and close inspection of the printing registration on these small-format pieces often reveals it.
Trebnitz sits in the heart of Lower Silesia, a region that would change hands definitively after World War II. These 1920 notes predate that transfer by a quarter century, issued under Weimar-era financial stress rather than political crisis.