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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Glatz (City of Glatz), Lower Silesia |
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| Size | 82 × 57 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Glatz / 50 Pfennige / Gültig bis 3 Monate nach Aufruf / Der Magistrat |
| Reverse description | Printed in black and ochre-yellow on a cream ground, the reverse presents a central architectural vignette of the historic Glatz bridge gate and Baroque collegiate church towers viewed in perspective, with the caption 'Aus vergangenen Tagen' in Gothic script along the lower border. Flanking the central scene are two vertical side panels of geometric guilloche underprint, each centred on an ornamental cartouche enclosing the denomination numeral '50', surmounted by a female figure in the manner of classical allegory. |
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Glatz — now Kłodzko — was the administrative center of the Glatz County in Lower Silesia, and this 50 Pfennig Notgeld was produced entirely within the town itself: designed, engraved, and printed by the local firm L. Schirmer without recourse to any of the major Leipzig or Berlin printing houses that handled most municipal emergency currency of the period. That degree of local self-sufficiency is uncommon and accounts for the noticeably provincial character of the typography.
The region passed to Poland following the postwar territorial transfers confirmed at Potsdam in 1945, and the German-speaking population was subsequently expelled — which means the civic infrastructure that issued this note ceased to exist in any meaningful continuity.