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50 Pfennig Pless
| Issuer | Magistrat Pless, Oberschlesien |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| In circulation to | 1 April 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | Gut für 50 Pfennig Nur im Verkehr in der Stadt Pless O.S. Gültig bis zum 1. April 1920. Pless O.S. den 20. Okt. 1918 Der Magistrat: (Translation: Good for 50 pfennigs Only valid in traffic in the city of Pless O.S. Valid until April 1, 1920. Pless O.S., October 20, 1918 The Magistrate:) |
| Reverse description | Plain teal-blue guilloche underprint on paper, dominated by a large central circular seal of the Magistrat Pless, Schlesien, rendered in letterpress. The seal bears a town arms device with a castle tower and eagle, enclosed by the legend "MAGISTRAT PLESS SCHLESIEN" around the circumference. |
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Pless — now Pszczyna in southern Poland — was one of hundreds of German municipalities that issued Notgeld during the final year of the war, when small-denomination coinage had essentially vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted. The Magistrat's 50 Pfennig note belongs to the first wave of emergency municipal issues, predating the more decorative Serienscheine that flooded the market from 1920 onward.
Upper Silesia's postwar fate — partition between Germany and Poland following the 1921 plebiscite and subsequent League of Nations arbitration — meant that many local municipal issues from this border region circulated only briefly before the administrative structures that backed them ceased to exist entirely.