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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altheide (Municipality of Altheide) |
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| Printer | L. Schirmer, Glatz |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde ALTHEIDE herzheilbad in Schlesien |
| Reverse description | Olive-brown note with a symmetrical central vignette of two seated cherub figures flanking a large fountain basin, each accompanied by a blue heart motif; the fountain is rendered in white outline against a dark background. Denomination numerals '50 Pf' appear in the upper left and upper right corners in bold Gothic script. A town motto inscription arcs across the top, and a validity clause with two facsimile signatures of the Gemeinde-Vorstand appears at the foot of the note. The printer's imprint is visible along the bottom margin. |
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Altheide — now Polanica-Zdrój in southwestern Poland — was a spa town in Lower Silesia, and like hundreds of German municipalities it issued Notgeld during the currency collapse of the early 1920s. These small emergency notes were printed locally, often by jobbing printers with no banknote experience. L. Schirmer in Glatz (Kłodzko) was exactly that kind of operation: a provincial press turning out municipal scrip alongside letterheads and handbills.
Altheide Notgeld was redeemable only within the issuing municipality, which kept most pieces in tight local circulation — and ultimately drove most of them into destruction when they were exchanged and cancelled.