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75 Pfennigs Landsberg in Oberschlesien
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Landsberg in Oberschlesien |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 92 × 61 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette bears the municipal coat of arms flanked by a pastoral landscape vignette with green fields, a river, and two boundary posts marking a border. The design is rendered in a simple letterpress style typical of German Notgeld issues of the early 1920s. |
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| Reverse description | A view of the town square is set within a decorative border frame, with the city name inscribed along the border and the denomination stated below the central vignette. |
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Landsberg in Oberschlesien — now Góra Świętej Elżbiety in Poland — issued this Notgeld in 1921 during one of the most politically charged moments in the region's modern history. The Upper Silesia plebiscite took place in March of that year, with the population voting on whether to join Germany or the newly reconstituted Polish state. Local Notgeld issues from this period were often as much a statement of civic identity as a practical response to the postwar small-change shortage.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is among the more unusual fractional values produced during the Notgeld wave — most municipalities kept to rounder figures.