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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Oberglogau (Upper Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Issued in Fraktur script, the obverse carries the title 'Fünfzig-Pfennig-Schein d. Stadt Oberglogau, O.S.' across the upper portion. A central heraldic shield bearing a grapevine motif is flanked by decorative foliate scrollwork and two subsidiary shields each inscribed '50 Pf.', all rendered in a green and black two-colour letterpress scheme. The issue date 'Oberglogau, den 1. Juli 1921' appears lower left, with the validity date '31. 12. 1922' lower right alongside the manuscript signature of the Magistrat, the printer's imprint 'Flemming-Wiskott A.G. Glogau' running along the bottom edge. |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfzig-Pfennig-Schein d. Stadt Oberglogau, O.S. 50 Pf. Gültig bis: 31. 12. 1922 Oberglogau, den 1. Juli 1921. der Magistrat: |
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Oberglogau's 50 Pfennig notgeld of 1921 was produced by Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott A.G. in Glogau — a notable regional printing house that handled a substantial volume of Silesian emergency currency during the inflationary spiral of the early Weimar years. The timing matters: 1921 placed this issue squarely within the Upper Silesian plebiscite period, when the region's political future was still unresolved and local municipal authorities were issuing their own scrip partly because the central banking system was failing to supply adequate small-denomination coinage.
Glogau itself would later become Głogów under Polish administration following postwar boundary changes.