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1 Mark

Issuer Patschkau (Upper Silesia), City of
Year 1921
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Currency Mark (1914-1924)
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Obverse lettering PATSCHKAU/SCHL.
in principio erat verbum
der Magistrat:
FLEMMING-WISKOTT A. G. GLOGAU.
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Signature(s) Reimann and Snicholka
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Patschkau — now Paczków, Poland — issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s, when inflation was already eroding coin circulation but had not yet reached its catastrophic peak. Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott in Glogau were prolific printers of Notgeld for Silesian municipalities during this period, and their production quality was generally a cut above the purely emergency scrip churned out elsewhere.

The Upper Silesian plebiscite of March 1921 fell within months of this note's issue — the region's political future was still unresolved when Patschkau authorized it.

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