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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Bergstadt Tarnowitz (Upper Silesia) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#1312.1 |
| Obverse description | Notgeld issue printed on buff-toned paper in black and green. The upper portion carries the bold Gothic-script legend "NOTGELD DER ALTEN FREIEN" with "DER MAGISTRAT" and two manuscript signatures flanked by the denomination numerals "75" on each side; below, the warning "NACHAHMUNG WIRD BESTRAFT" appears above the central vignette of the Tarnowitz civic coat of arms, a quartered shield bearing a black eagle on gold and crossed mining tools on a dark field. The lower section displays the denomination "75 PFENNIG" in large green numerals and the town name "BERGSTADT TARNOWITZ" in prominent letterpress, with vertical moral mottoes printed in the side margins. |
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| Reverse lettering | ALTE FREIE BERG- STADT TARNOWITZ FLEMMING - WISKOTT A.G. GLOGAU |
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Tarnowitz — now Tarnowskie Góry in Poland — issued this note during the chaotic plebiscite aftermath in Upper Silesia. The 1921 referendum had narrowly favored Germany, but the League of Nations partition awarded the industrial eastern strip, including much of the mining region, to Poland anyway. Germany's Weimar inflation was already accelerating, and municipal authorities across the contested zone scrambled to issue local Notgeld to keep small transactions moving. This 75 Pfennig denomination exists precisely because small Reichsmark coinage had effectively vanished from circulation by 1922.
Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau handled a considerable volume of Silesian Notgeld printing during this period.