75 Pfennig, Stadt Landsberg in Oberschlesien, 1921 (town view)
Notgeld der Stadt Landsberg Oberschlesien
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This copy
- Accession
- OM-00848
- Series year
- 1921
- Actually issued
- 1921
- Signatures
- This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.
- Grade
- UNC (IBNS)
Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not.
- Estimated value
- $10 indicative
Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-10-24.
- Dimensions
- 91.7 × 62.8 mm (±0.5, from the scan)
- Themes
- NotgeldWeimar RepublicUpper SilesiaSilesian plebisciteTownscape
The type
- Type
- 75 Pfennig, Stadt Landsberg in Oberschlesien, 1921 (town view)
- Rarity
- common
Symbology
- Leaping-stag seal, Stadt Landsberg O/S 1241
- The town arms and its foundation date of 1241, printed on the shared front within a barber-pole border.
- Befreiung v. d. polnisch. Insurgent.
- A line commemorating the town's deliverance from the Polish insurgents of the 1921 Upper Silesian uprising, expressed from the German municipality's standpoint.
- Red street view of the town
- A view of Landsberg's streets and buildings, presenting the town that issued the note.
What was happening
By 1921 Notgeld had turned from wartime necessity into a collectors' market, and towns put out illustrated sets printed far beyond any local need. In Upper Silesia that year the paper also carried politics.
Landsberg in Oberschlesien - today Gorzów Śląski in southern Poland - is a small town in the Olesno (Rosenberg) district, first mentioned in 1241, whose leaping-stag seal (Stadt Landsberg O/S 1241) appears on the front of these notes. After the First World War the Treaty of Versailles assigned the future of Upper Silesia, an ethnically mixed region of Poles and Germans, to a plebiscite. In the vote of 20 March 1921 the region as a whole returned a German majority, though many districts to the south-east voted Polish; the disputed result was followed by the Third Silesian Uprising in May 1921, when Polish insurgents took up arms to press for union with Poland and German paramilitary self-defence units resisted them. Landsberg's notes were issued in that charged spring (dated 24 May 1921) and carry the line Befreiung v. d. polnisch. Insurgent. - the town's own commemoration of its defence against, or relief from, the Polish insurgents. The wording reflects the German municipality's point of view at the time.
This 75-Pfennig note shows a red street-and-building view of the town on the back, captioned Notgeld der Stadt Landsberg Oberschlesien. Its companions are [[notgeld-landsberg-oberschlesien-75-pfennig-insurgenten]] and [[notgeld-landsberg-oberschlesien-50-pfennig]].
This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 75 Pfennig, Stadt Landsberg in Oberschlesien, 1921 (town view) in the collection.
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