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75 Pfennigs Landsberg in Oberschlesien
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Landsberg (Oberschlesien) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Red-brown and dark blue Notgeld note with a geometric diagonal hatching border in alternating colours. A central vignette presents a lithographic street scene of a Landsberg town square with multi-storey civic and residential buildings under an open sky, overlaid by a large underprint numeral '75' in red. The town name is inscribed in bold capitals at the top and the regional designation at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | LANDSBERGIN 75 OBERSCHLESIEN |
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Landsberg in Oberschlesien — not to be confused with the better-known Bavarian Landsberg am Lech — issued this Notgeld amid the plebiscite crisis gripping Upper Silesia in 1921. The March vote on whether the region would remain German or pass to Poland had just produced a contested result, and the subsequent partition decision by the Allied Conference of Ambassadors in October left the area in administrative limbo. Small municipal issuers like the Magistrat here were printing emergency fractions partly because Reichsbank notes were being hoarded or removed from circulation by a population bracing for currency transition.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is among the less common fractional values in Oberschlesien Notgeld — most series leaned on 25 and 50.