25 Pfennigs

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.