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75 Pfennig Oberschlesier-Hilfstag
| Issuer | Stadt- und Landkreis Halberstadt (Notgeld) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#503.1 |
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| Obverse lettering | Oberschlesier-Hilfstag im Stadt-u. Landkreis Halberstadt am 11. September 1921 SPENDE FÜR OBERSCHLESIER-HILFSTAG Rotes Kreuz Stadt-u. Landkreis Halberstadt Veranstalter Vereinigte Verbände Heimattreuer Oberschlesier Bezirksgruppe |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark grey and red on cream paper within a plain ruled border, centred on a full-length vignette of a medieval armoured knight bearing a shield and lance. Ornate guilloche panels to either side carry the red Gothic inscriptions 'Große Not in Oberschlesien' at left and 'Viel Geld muß gesammelt werden' at right. A four-line verse in smaller Gothic type runs across the upper margin, with a further two-line couplet in the lower panel appealing to solidarity with Upper Silesia; the printer's imprint 'FABER, MAGDEBURG.' appears at lower left. |
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Issued in support of the Oberschlesier-Hilfstag — the relief day organized to aid ethnic Germans displaced or threatened by the plebiscite conflict in Upper Silesia — this note belongs to a narrow category of Serienscheine that doubled as political instruments. The March 1921 plebiscite had produced a technically ambiguous result, and Germany's subsequent loss of a significant portion of Upper Silesia under the League of Nations partition fueled a wave of local fundraising issues across German municipalities.
Faber of Magdeburg printed extensively for the Saxon and Prussian notgeld market; the Halberstadt series is among the less commonly encountered of their 1921 output.