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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Neustadt O.S. |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Tan letterpress note with a chain-link border enclosing the text. Issuer name 'Neustadt OS.' and serial number at top; large Fraktur script denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' at centre. Numeral '50' flanks a manuscript signature at lower centre, with validity clause and printer imprint at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Neustadt OS. Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig Der Magistrat der Stadt Neustadt OS. 50 50 Gültig bis zum 31. Dezember 1919. Druck von Wilh. Gottl. Korn in Breslau. |
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Neustadt O.S. — Neustadt in Oberschlesien — issued this Notgeld at a moment of acute political instability. The 1919 plebiscite question over Upper Silesia's future between Germany and the newly reconstituted Poland was already hardening into a genuine crisis, and the local magistracy, like dozens of other Upper Silesian municipalities that year, filled the small-change vacuum left by the collapse of imperial coinage with its own emergency paper.
Korn of Breslau was a workhorse printer for Silesian municipal Notgeld — reliable, local, unremarkable in ambition. The notes were functional instruments, not collector pieces, though the plebiscite turmoil that followed in 1921 and the subsequent partition means many were never redeemed.