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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Kreisstadt Leobschütz |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Zehn Pfennig 10 Deutsches Haus in deutscher Stadt. Mit Gott für Heimat und Reich! Notgeld der Kreisstadt Leobschütz. Der Magistrat: [signatures] Gültig bis 31.12.22. NACHDRUCK VERBOTEN! FLEMMING-WISKOTT A:G. GLOGAU. |
| Reverse description | Salmon-pink ground printed in dark brown, the upper portion filled with dense Gothic-script text giving the historical and civic description of Leobschütz. To the upper left, a vignette of the city's heraldic monument — a winged allegorical figure surmounting a pedestal bearing the civic coat of arms and the inscription 'Leobschütz' — stands above a panoramic silhouette of the town's skyline with its characteristic church spires. The lower register is divided into three bordered panels: the outer two each bearing '10 Pfennig' in bold type, while the central panel carries a Goethe quotation in Fraktur script. |
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Leobschütz — now Głubczyce in southwestern Poland — issued this Notgeld through its Kreisstadt magistrate during the municipal emergency currency wave that swept German and Austrian towns between 1916 and the early 1920s. Flemming & Wiskott of Glogau were among the more prolific small-denomination printers of the period, handling municipal contracts across Silesia when the Reichsbank could no longer keep low-denomination coinage in practical circulation.
The town itself sits close to the Czech border in what was then contested Upper Silesia, a region subject to the 1921 plebiscite that ultimately split the area between Germany and Poland. Whether this note circulated before or during that political turbulence affects its story considerably.