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1 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadthauptkasse Waldenburg (Lower Silesia) |
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| Reference(s) | Gra#W4.7b |
| Obverse description | Plain buff paper note of minimal typographic design, printed in black letterpress. The denomination "1 Pfg." appears in large bold type at centre, above the issuer name "Stadthauptkasse / Waldenburg Schl.", with the voucher legend "Gutschein über" at the top. A circular blue ink stamp of the Magistrat der Stadt Waldenburg, enclosing a heraldic shield, is applied to the upper right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über 1 Pfg. Stadthauptkasse Waldenburg Schl. DER MAGISTRAT DER STADT (stamp) |
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Waldenburg — now Wałbrzych in southwestern Poland — was a coal-mining center whose wartime labor demands created acute small-change shortages. This 1 Pfennig Notgeld was issued by the Stadthauptkasse, the municipal treasury, as a purely local stopgap. The coal economy ran on small transactions, and the absence of low-denomination coinage was a practical daily problem, not an abstraction.
The Gra# reference places this in Grabowski's Notgeld catalog, suffix "b" indicating a recognized variety — likely a color or paper stock difference from the "a" type.