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50 Pfennig - Neisse Alte Wage
| Issuer | City of Neisse (Silesia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER STADT NEISSE 50 PFG. ✿ 1921 ✿ |
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Neisse (now Nysa, Poland) issued this notgeld piece during the acute coin shortage that followed Germany's post-WWI economic dislocation, when municipal authorities across Silesia took it upon themselves to produce emergency currency rather than wait for a central government that could not keep pace with demand. The "Alte Wage" — the old weighhouse — was a landmark civic building in Neisse's market square, its inclusion here a pointed assertion of local identity at a moment when the region's political future was genuinely uncertain.
Upper Silesia's fate was being decided by plebiscite that same year, with the vote held in March 1921.