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100 Pfennigs Landsberg in Oberschlesien
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde 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 presents the municipal coat of arms flanked by a pastoral landscape vignette, with green fields, a river, and two boundary posts marking a border. The composition is framed by a printed border with the denomination and issuing authority inscribed in period letterpress typeface. |
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| Reverse description | A view of the town square rendered as a central vignette, enclosed within an ornamental border. The city name appears as an inscription within the border surround, with the nominal value stated in text below the central vignette. |
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Landsberg in Oberschlesien — now Góra Świętej Anny in Poland — issued this note during the most volatile period of the Upper Silesian plebiscite crisis. The vote of March 1921 had just taken place, and the Third Silesian Uprising broke out in May of that same year. Local Notgeld from the region in this period was as much a political statement as a monetary stopgap, with German-speaking municipalities asserting administrative continuity while the fate of the territory remained contested in Paris.
The issuing municipality ceased to exist as a German entity within a few years of issue, which curtailed any redemption process and left surviving notes in the hands of collectors rather than returning them to the treasury.