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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Städte und Landkreise des oberschlesischen Industriebezirks (Cities and Districts of the Upper Silesian Industrial District) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Für die Einlösung haften Stadt Beuthen O/S Landkr. Beuthen O/S Stadt Gleiwitz Kr. Hindenburg Landkr. Kattowitz Stadt Kattowitz Stadt Königshütte Kr. Rybnik Kr. Tarnowitz |
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| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt u. Landkreise des oberschlesischen Industriebezirks. 25 Pfennige Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1919. Serie III CARL FLEMMING A.-G. GLOGAU u. BERLIN. |
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The Upper Silesian Industrial District occupied one of the most contested pieces of territory in post-WWI Europe. The 1919 plebiscite question — whether the region would fall to Germany or the newly reconstituted Poland — remained unresolved for years, leaving local municipalities scrambling to maintain basic commerce. This 25 Pfennig Notgeld was part of that scramble: a coalition of cities and districts issuing emergency scrip collectively because no single authority had the standing or resources to do it alone.
Carl Flemming A.G. in Glogau was a well-established printer with a long history of cartographic and commercial work — an unusual choice for emergency currency, but one that produced cleaner results than many Notgeld issues of the period.