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100 Pfennigs Landsberg in Oberschlesien
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Landsberg in Oberschlesien |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 100 Pfennigs (100 Pfennige) |
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| Obverse description | A central coat of arms vignette is flanked by a pastoral landscape incorporating green fields and a river, with two border poles marking a territorial boundary. The composition is framed within a decorative border typical of German notgeld issues of the period. |
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| Reverse description | A vignette of the town square is enclosed within a decorative border; the city name appears as an inscription within the border surround, with the nominal value stated below the central vignette. |
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Landsberg in Oberschlesien — now Góra Świętej Anny in Poland — issued this note during one of the most politically charged moments in the region's modern history. The 1921 Upper Silesian plebiscite, held on March 20th of that year, was supposed to settle whether the territory went to Germany or the newly reconstituted Polish state. Landsberg voted overwhelmingly to remain German, but the subsequent Partition of Upper Silesia in 1922 handed significant portions of the industrial zone to Poland regardless.
Emergency Pfennig issues like this one were a direct consequence of small-denomination coin shortages that had persisted since the war years. The town's note fits a wave of Notgeld production across contested Silesian municipalities, many of which treated the notes as minor propaganda vehicles during the plebiscite period.