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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Tarnowitz (City Treasury of Tarnowitz) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Small-format emergency note (Notgeld) printed on pale blue-green paper with a simple letterpress border of repeated zigzag ornament. The text is set in Gothic (Fraktur) script across four lines, with a handwritten serial number in the upper right. A faint embossed seal impression is visible at center. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein Nr. über 50 Pfennig. Stadtkasse Tarnowitz. Brier. Tobollik. (Translation: Voucher No. for 50 Pfennigs. City Treasury Tarnowitz. Brier. Tobollik.) |
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Tarnowitz — today Tarnowskie Góry in Upper Silesia — issued this note as Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that followed the First World War. City treasuries across Germany and occupied territories filled the gap left by hoarded or melted coinage, and Tarnowitz was no exception. The embossed seal substituted for the security infrastructure unavailable to a municipal cashier's office operating under postwar austerity.
The dual-signature authorization by Brier and Tobollik reflects standard Stadtkasse countersigning practice. Upper Silesia's contested political status after 1918 — the plebiscite over German or Polish administration wasn't held until March 1921 — gives even routine municipal paper from the region an edge of historical contingency.