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75 Pfennigs Landsberg in Oberschlesien
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Landsberg in Oberschlesien |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the municipal coat of arms, flanked by a pastoral landscape with green fields, a river, and two border poles marking the scene. The composition is framed within a decorative border typical of Notgeld issues of the period. |
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| Reverse description | A vignette of the town square is enclosed within a decorative border, with the city name inscribed along the border surround and the nominal value stated below the central design. |
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Landsberg in Oberschlesien — now Gorzów Śląski in Poland — was one of dozens of small Upper Silesian municipalities that issued emergency Notgeld in 1921, but the timing here matters. The note appeared during the Upper Silesia plebiscite period, when the region's political future was actively contested between Germany and Poland. Local Notgeld from this window carries an unspoken function: asserting civic identity at a moment when even town names were politically charged.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is slightly unusual — a practical gap-filler for post-inflation small change shortages rather than a round figure issued for collector sets, though by 1921 the line between the two had blurred considerably.