50 Pfennigs Landsberg in Oberschlesien

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.