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Official coin deputy - project
Municipal crafts and arts and crafts school in Breslau
26,0 clay with a grain of ivory
Obverse: large digit 3, below the inscription *MARK*, below the date in an arc,
1921, at the top in an arc the inscription BRESLAU
Reverse: a kneeling figure with a shovel in his hand, planting a tree. A
pentabrachial star at the top, a small letter Z at the bottom
Circulation unknown -
Scheuch 502 IV, Ringleb 104.1.1
26,0 glinka o baras kości słoniowej
Obverse: large digit 5 separating the inscription BRES LAU, above the digit a
pentabrachial asterisk, below it a capital letter M, below it a small letter Z
Reverse: a female figure in a long dress, presented in a horizontal position,
with a comet above her and a pentabrachial star below her. The date 1921 is in
an arc at the bottom
Circulation unknown
In the light of recent research published in the Numismatic Bulletin 2013/1 by
Artur Galas, it appears that both coins come from one warpcsat. "Noske, Menzel,
Scheuch, Ringleb indicated Bunzlauer ceramic workshops Reinhold & Co. (Bolesławiecki
Warpcsaty Ceramiczne Reinhold and S-ka) as the manufacturer of the 3-brand
coins; however, they did not provide the source of this information. A review of
the Wrocław "period" press allows us to shed a little more light on the history
of these coins. Two Wrocław daily newspapers - "Breslauer Zeitung" and "Breslauer
Neuste Nachrichten" - published short reports on the Notgeld exhibition opened
in December 1921 in the Silesian Museum of Artistic Crafts and Antiquities,
which can be associated with the numismatic items described above. Among the
numerous curiosities exhibited also included designs of coins with stoneware
made for the city of Wrocław by the School of Handicraft and Artistic Crafts.
This laconic mention precisely indicates the place where the coin designs were
created - Städtische Handwerker - and Kunstgewerbeschule zu Breslau; it also
allows you to associate the designer's signature (letter Z ) with Brunon Zschau,
professor of sculpture and ceramics at the Wrocław school. It cannot be ruled
out that the coins were only designed in Wrocław and then minted at the Reinhold
plant, but such a possibility seems unlikely. The prestigious order of the city
authorities could have been successfully completed in the ceramic workshops of
the Wrocław school, and not with Reinhold, who cooperated closely with another
vocational education institution - the Royal Ceramic School in Bolesławiec. For
now, it remains a mystery whether three- and five-mark coins were the only
denominations of the designed coins.
(BN 2013/1/369)
Special thanks to the owner of coins and the author of the photos, and to Artur
Galas for very thorough research and sharing the materials.