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50 Pfennig - Gleiwitz Sandbahngesellschaft
| Issuer | Gleiwitz Sandbahngesellschaft |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND |
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Gleiwitz — today Gliwice, Poland — was a major industrial center in Upper Silesia, and the Sandbahngesellschaft was the local narrow-gauge sand railway operation serving the region's extraction industry. In 1918, with Germany's metal economy collapsing under wartime requisitioning, hundreds of industrial firms and municipalities issued their own zinc and iron notgeld to keep small transactions moving. This piece is one of them — functional, unglamorous, and entirely local in its reach.
The Hasselmann reference places it firmly within the documented Upper Silesian notgeld corpus.