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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Patschkau (City of Patschkau), Upper Silesia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld No [Nummer] / Stadt Patschkau / Fünfzig Pfennige / 50 / Für diesen Schein zahlt die Stadthauptkasse dem Einlieferer 50 Pfennige. / Verfalltag 2 Monate nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung. / Der Magistrat. / Patschkau, im Jahre 1921. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1870 / 50 / 1920 / Gymnasium |
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Patschkau — today Paczków, Poland — was one of hundreds of German municipalities that issued Notgeld during the inflationary chaos of the early Weimar years. These small emergency issues were legal under the circumstances but entirely local in authority: the city, not the Reichsbank, stood behind redemption. Most were printed in small batches by regional job printers and redeemed quickly once conditions stabilized, which is precisely why so many series were cancelled and destroyed before 1924.
Upper Silesia in 1921 was politically volatile — the plebiscite over partition between Germany and Poland was held that March, and the Third Silesian Uprising followed in May. Whether that disruption affected this note's actual circulation or redemption is unrecorded.