Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Pfennigs Landsberg in Oberschlesien
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Landsberg in Oberschlesien |
|---|---|
| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | 92 × 61 mm |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Central vignette carries the municipal coat of arms set against a pastoral landscape with green fields and a river, flanked by two border poles marking a territorial boundary. The design is framed by a simple typographic border with the denomination and issuing authority rendered in letterpress. The overall composition is characteristic of German Notgeld emergency currency of the early 1920s. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | A vignette of the town square is enclosed within a decorative border, with the city name inscribed along the border surround and the nominal value stated in the lower portion of the note. The layout follows the standard Notgeld format, combining a local topographic scene with plain typeset text. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Landsberg in Oberschlesien — now Góra Świętej Anny, Poland — issued this notgeld in 1921 at the exact moment the region's political future was being decided by plebiscite. Upper Silesia voted in March of that year, and the subsequent partition triggered months of armed conflict, including the Third Silesian Uprising. Municipal scrip from communities in the contested zone carries an inherent instability: the issuing authority itself was potentially temporary, depending on which side of the new border the town landed on.
Landsberg ultimately passed to Germany, though the surrounding district was divided. The notgeld was rendered obsolete well before hyperinflation made such denominations absurd anyway.