20 Pfennig Koslowagora

Koslowagora — now Kozłowa Góra, absorbed into Piekary Śląskie in Upper Silesia — issued this Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that gripped German municipalities from around 1916 onward. Local emergency money of this type was authorized at the community level precisely because the Reichsbank could not supply enough small-denomination coinage to keep everyday commerce moving during wartime metal requisitioning.

J. P. Himmer in Augsburg printed for dozens of German municipalities during this period. The single Tyczka signature identifies a local official rather than a bank officer — typical of how thinly administered these smaller Silesian township issues were.