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50 Pfennigs Landsberg in Oberschlesien
| Issuer | Stadt Landsberg in Oberschlesien |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 92 × 61 mm |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette carries the municipal coat of arms set against a pastoral landscape with green fields, a river, and two boundary posts delineating the town's territory. The composition is rendered in a simple letterpress style characteristic of provincial Notgeld issues of the early 1920s. The denomination and issuing authority are inscribed around the vignette in period-typical gothic typeface. |
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| Reverse description | A town square vignette is enclosed within a decorative typographic border, with the city name lettered in the surrounding frame and the nominal value inscribed beneath the central composition. The overall layout follows the modest letterpress conventions standard to Oberschlesien municipal Notgeld of the 1921 issue period. |
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Landsberg in Oberschlesien — today Góra Świętej Anny, Poland — issued this notgeld in 1921 during one of the most politically volatile periods in the region's history. The Upper Silesian plebiscite took place in March of that year, with the population voting on whether to join Germany or Poland; the area remained contested for months afterward before the League of Nations partition in 1922. Local notgeld issues from this specific window are inseparable from that administrative uncertainty — municipalities printed their own small-denomination scrip partly because normal currency supply chains were disrupted and partly to assert local civic identity during the dispute.