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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Magistrat Trebnitz in Schlesien |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-orange note with bold black Gothic script text covering the entire face. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large type at upper left and upper right. The central text block states the note is accepted by the municipal treasury of Trebnitz in Silesia, with validity conditions and issuance date 5.11.1920, bearing a manuscript signature of the Magistrat. |
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| Reverse description | Black letterpress vignette on salmon-orange ground showing a panoramic townscape of Trebnitz with the towers of Trzebnica Abbey rising above rooftops and surrounding agricultural fields, all framed within a dark rectangular border. A ribbon scroll at the top carries the town inscription, and the denomination '50 Pfennig' is set in bold Gothic type at the base. |
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Trebnitz in Schlesien — now Trzebnica in southwestern Poland — was a small administrative town with no particular monetary history before the notgeld emergency forced virtually every German municipality into the improvised currency business. This note was printed by Grass, Barth & Comp. (W. Friedrich) in Breslau, the dominant regional printer for Silesian notgeld, which supplied dozens of similar-sized communities during the coin shortage that followed the First World War.
The 1920 date places it in the second wave of municipal notgeld, after the acute shortage of small change had already dragged on for years.