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50 Pfennig - Liebau
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Liebau i/Schles |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | An outer pearl border frames the coin, with the circular Latin legend reading MAGISTRAT DER STADT ★ LIEBAU I/SCHLES ★ between the border and an inner beaded circle. Within the inner circle, a stylized town tower flanked by two trees occupies the central field, rendered in low relief typical of German Notgeld emergency coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | MAGISTRAT DER STADT ★ LIEBAU I/SCHLES ★ |
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Liebau — today Lubawka, in southwestern Poland — issued this notgeld piece in 1920 as the postwar German monetary system buckled under reparations pressure and raw material shortages. Municipal and commercial authorities across Silesia printed and struck their own emergency currency during this period because the Reichsbank simply could not supply sufficient coinage for daily transactions. Zinc was the pragmatic choice: cheap, available, and already familiar from wartime coinage. The nickel-plated variant exists because some municipalities attempted to extend the useful life of zinc pieces, which corrode aggressively in circulation.