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1/2 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kandrzin-Pogorzelletz (Municipality of Kandrzin-Pogorzelletz) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in orange and dark brown on cream paper, the obverse carries a decorative octagonal border with geometric Art Deco corner ornaments bearing the denomination '1/2 MARK' in all four corners. A central horizontal band frames a circular vignette containing a municipal seal inscribed 'GEMEINDE KANDRZIN-POGORZELLETZ / KREIS-COSEL-OST' surrounding a sheaf of grain. Flanking ribbon banners bear the title 'Gutschein der Gemeinde' above and 'Kandrzin-Pogorzelletz' below, with validity and date inscriptions reading 'Gültig bis Drei Monate nach öffentlichem Aufruf' to the left and 'den 6. Juni 1921 / Gemeinde-Vorstand' with a manuscript signature to the right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Kandrzin-Pogorzelletz GEMEINDE KANDRZIN-POGORZELLETZ KREIS-COSEL-OST Gültig bis Drei Monate nach öffentlichem Aufruf den 6. Juni 1921 Gemeinde-Vorstand 1/2 MARK |
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Kandrzin-Pogorzelletz — the hyphenated pairing of two adjacent industrial settlements on the Oder — issued this Notgeld during the plebiscite period that followed the Treaty of Versailles, when Upper Silesia's political future was still being contested between Germany and Poland. The vote took place in March 1921; this note belongs to that charged interregnum when local municipalities printed their own fractional currency because central supply had broken down and the outcome of partition was genuinely unknown.
Grass, Barth & Comp. (W. Friedrich) in Breslau handled a large volume of Silesian Notgeld commissions during this period — a logical choice given proximity, but one that would itself become a political footnote as Breslau later passed to Poland as Wrocław after 1945.