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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Königshütte (Upper Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | German-language Notgeld note printed in dark blue and red on buff paper, framed by a bold rectangular border. Two industrial smokestacks flank the central text field, beneath a wavy-line underprint header; a radiating sunburst underprint emanates from a central vignette of a mine headframe with winding wheel. The denomination '25 PFENNIG 25' appears in large red numerals with the issuing authority 'KÖNIGSHÜTTE / Ober-Schlesien' at the top, date of issue 'Königshütte, den 20. März 1921' and validity clause 'für diesen Gutschein bis zum 31.12.1921' in the text body, with two facsimile signatures of Der Magistrat below. The lower banner carries 'GLÜCK AUF!' in red and '20.3. VOLKSABSTIMMUNG. 1921.' across the foot, referencing the Upper Silesia plebiscite. |
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| Obverse lettering | KÖNIGSHÜTTE Ober-Schlesien 25 PFENNIG 25 zahlen wir für diesen Gutschein bis zum 31.12.1921. Königshütte, den 20. März 1921 Der Magistrat GLÜCK AUF! 20.3. VOLKSABSTIMMUNG. 1921. |
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Königshütte's 25 Pfennig notgeld was issued in 1921 during an acutely tense period for the city: the League of Nations plebiscite on Upper Silesia's future had taken place in March of that year, with the subsequent partition decision in October triggering armed conflict between German and Polish irregular forces. Many notgeld issues from this zone were deliberately designed as political statements during the plebiscite campaign, asserting German cultural identity through imagery and local history.
Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a minor but prolific notgeld printer, responsible for numerous municipal issues across central Germany in 1920–21. The designer credit to Gerstenberg is uncommon enough to narrow attribution, though no further biographical detail on this individual has been firmly established in the literature.