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100 Pfennigs Landsberg in Oberschlesien
| Issuer | Stadt Landsberg in Oberschlesien |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette consists of a municipal coat of arms flanked by a landscape scene with green fields, a river, and two demarcating border poles. The composition is framed within a decorative border typical of Notgeld issues of the period. |
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| Reverse description | A vignette of the town square is enclosed within a decorative border, with the city name inscribed along the border and the nominal value stated below the central design. |
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Landsberg in Oberschlesien — today Góra, Poland — issued this notgeld in 1921 during one of the most politically charged moments in the region's modern history. The Upper Silesia plebiscite took place in March of that year, with the population voting on whether to join Germany or the newly reconstituted Polish state. Local emergency currency issued in this window was as much a statement of municipal identity as it was a practical response to the small-change shortage that plagued postwar Germany.
The town voted heavily to remain German, though the subsequent partition awarded much of the industrial east to Poland regardless.