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75 Pfennigs Landsberg in Oberschlesien
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Landsberg in Oberschlesien |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents the municipal coat of arms flanked by a pastoral landscape vignette with green fields, a river, and two boundary marker poles delineating the town's territory. The design is executed in a letterpress style typical of Notgeld issues of the period. |
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| Reverse description | A vignette of the town square is framed within a decorative border, with the city name inscribed along the border surround and the nominal value stated in text below the central image. |
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Landsberg in Oberschlesien — now Górzyca in Poland — issued this note during one of the most politically volatile periods in the region's history. The 1921 Upper Silesia plebiscite, held in March of that year, was meant to resolve whether the territory would remain German or transfer to the newly reconstituted Polish state. Local municipalities across the region issued their own Notgeld partly out of practical necessity — the postwar small-change shortage was real — but also, implicitly, as an assertion of administrative normalcy at a moment when the entire civic order was under dispute.
The plebiscite returned a majority for Germany, though the subsequent League of Nations partition awarded the more industrially valuable eastern strip to Poland. Landsberg itself remained on the German side until 1945.