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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Glatz (City of Glatz), Lower Silesia |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Glatz / 50 Pfennige / Gültig bis 3 Monate nach Aufruf / Der Magistrat |
| Reverse description | Printed in orange and cream, the reverse presents two broad lateral panels of interlocking oval guilloche underprint, each centred on a baroque cartouche surmounted by a female figure and enclosing the numeral '50'. The central field carries a letterpress topographic vignette of a historic street scene in Glatz rendered in dark ink over an orange wash, with multi-storey burgher houses, a bridgeway, and a solitary cloaked figure in the foreground. A caption cartouche at the lower centre reads 'Aus vergangenen Tagen' (From days gone by). |
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Glatz was a Prussian administrative and garrison town in the Glatz Valley, surrounded on three sides by the Bohemian border — a geography that made it economically semi-isolated and, during the coin shortages of World War One, heavily dependent on locally printed Notgeld to keep daily commerce moving. The Stadt Glatz issued several small-denomination emergency notes through local printers rather than routing orders to Leipzig or Berlin, which was common enough for smaller Silesian municipalities of this size.
L. Schirmer was a local printing house, not a specialist banknote printer, and the work shows it — these notes were produced for function, not longevity.