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10 Pfennig - Liebau
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Liebau (Silesia) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Central design features the civic arms of Liebau, depicting a tower or church steeple flanked by two conifer trees, all rising above a stylized representation of water rendered in horizontal lines, evoking the town's sylvan and riparian character. The motif is enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The circumferential legend, separated by star ornaments, reads MAGISTRAT DER STADT in the upper arc and LIEBAU I/SCHLES in the lower arc, both in raised Latin lettering. The overall composition is contained within the octagonal flan with a dotted border following the coin's eight-sided periphery. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Liebau's 1920 notgeld issue belongs to the turbulent post-WWI period when hundreds of German and Austrian municipalities were forced to produce their own emergency coinage after the central government could no longer supply sufficient small change. Silesian towns like Liebau faced particular instability — the region's political future was openly contested, with the League of Nations overseeing plebiscites that would ultimately partition Upper Silesia between Germany and Poland in 1922.
Zinc was the material of necessity, not preference, chosen because copper and nickel remained scarce and expensive following wartime requisitioning.