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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 | Central vignette shows a regional coat of arms flanked by a pastoral landscape with green fields, a river, and two border poles marking the terrain. The composition is typical of Notgeld issues, combining local heraldic and geographic symbolism within a decorative border frame. |
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| Reverse description | A view of the town square enclosed within an ornamental border; the city name appears as lettering within the border surround, with the nominal value inscribed below the central vignette. |
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Landsberg in Oberschlesien — today Góra Świętej Elżbiety in Poland — issued this Notgeld in 1921 during one of the most politically charged periods the region ever experienced. The Upper Silesian plebiscite took place on 20 March 1921, just months before this note would have entered local circulation, with the area's German and Polish populations voting on national affiliation under Allied supervision. The outcome was contested, and the subsequent partition decision by the League of Nations in October 1921 split Upper Silesia in ways that satisfied almost no one.
Landsberg itself remained on the German side of the partition, which likely influenced the continued issuance of German municipal emergency currency even as the political situation remained unresolved.