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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Cosel (Oberschlesien), Magistrat |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in red, dark brown, and olive-green on cream paper, with a serrated border at top and bottom. At centre, the municipal coat of arms of Cosel displays two goats beneath a crenellated red-brick city gate tower, flanked by oak-leaf sprays rendered as a green underprint. The denomination '75' appears in large red Gothic numerals on both left and right, with 'Pfennig' in black script below each; the issue date 'Cosel, den 1. April 1921.' is inscribed at lower left, and 'Der Magistrat:' with a facsimile signature at lower right. The heading 'Stadt Cosel O.S.' is set in bold red Gothic lettering across the top, with the printer's imprint 'FLEMMING WISKOTT A-G GLOGAU' at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown on cream paper with a serrated border at top and bottom. A central oval vignette presents a panoramic view of an industrial harbour scene, with a mine headframe and dockside cranes at left, steamships on the river, and factory chimneys on the horizon. The denomination '75' in large Gothic numerals occupies each corner, with 'Pf.' abbreviated at mid-left and mid-right. A two-line Gothic script heading across the top reads 'Herausgegeben zur Erinnerung an die Abstimmung 20. März 1921–', commemorating the Upper Silesia plebiscite, and the validity clause 'Gültig bis 1 Monat nach Bekanntmachung.' runs along the bottom. |
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Cosel — known today as Koźle — sits on the Oder in Upper Silesia, a region whose postwar political status was still being decided by plebiscite in 1921. The Magistrat issued this Notgeld while the territory hung in legal limbo between Germany and the newly reconstituted Polish state, which makes even routine municipal scrip from this district a direct artifact of one of the more contested border settlements of the entire Paris Peace process.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott in Glogau were among the more prolific Silesian printers of small-denomination emergency notes during 1920–22. Their output for regional municipalities was substantial, and quality control was generally high relative to comparable Notgeld printers of the period.