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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 of the municipal coat of arms, flanked by a pastoral landscape with green fields, a river, and two boundary posts marking the foreground. The design is rendered in a letterpress style typical of German Notgeld issues of the early 1920s. |
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| Reverse description | A view of the town square enclosed within a decorative border, with the city name inscribed along the border and the nominal value stated in the lower portion of the note. |
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Landsberg in Oberschlesien — now Góra Świętej Anny in present-day Poland — issued this note during one of the most politically charged moments in the region's modern history. The Upper Silesian plebiscite of March 1921 had just returned a majority vote for Germany, but the subsequent Third Silesian Uprising broke out in May, and the final partition imposed by the League of Nations in October 1922 ultimately severed much of the industrial zone from Germany regardless. Municipal notgeld issued in this area during 1921 was as much a statement of local administrative continuity as it was a practical response to the national coin shortage.
The Stadtgemeinde series from this district tends to survive in unissued condition — these notes circulated briefly if at all before the plebiscite outcome and subsequent political reorganization overtook their usefulness.