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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Zülz (Upper Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld with a bold Fraktur heading 'Notgeld der Stadt Zülz' across the top within a dotted border frame. The central vignette presents the town's coat of arms — a medieval tower with arched gateway — flanked by elaborate baroque acanthus scrollwork in gold and blue, with the denomination '50 Pf.' repeated at left and right. Below the vignette appear the place name 'Zülz', the date 'd. 21. März 1921', a serial number, and a manuscript signature for 'der Magistrat', with a validity clause at the foot reading 'Dieser Schein ist gültig bis 1 Monat nach Aufruf.' |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfennig 50 Zülz, O.-Schl. gegründet als deutsche Ansiedelung um 1125. |
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Zülz — known in Polish as Biała — sits in the contested territory that was partitioned between Germany and Poland following the March 1921 plebiscite in Upper Silesia. This Notgeld issue appeared during precisely that period of administrative uncertainty, when municipal authorities across the region were printing emergency small change to compensate for the chronic shortage of coins that had plagued German circulation since the war.
Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau were among the more prolific printers of Silesian Notgeld, handling dozens of municipal commissions across the province in 1921. Zülz ultimately fell within the German partition boundary — a fact that gave these notes a brief continued relevance before the broader Notgeld era collapsed with currency stabilization in 1923.