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1 Mark Gmina Knurów

Emittente Gmina Knurów
Anno 1922
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Valore 1 Mark
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Descrizione del dritto Central vignette presents a documentary illustration of the Knurów colliery, rendered in the linear engraving style characteristic of Upper Silesian Notgeld issues of the early 1920s. Surrounding text identifies the note as commemorative substitute currency issued in connection with the assignment of Knurów to Poland. The overall composition follows conventions typical of Silesian municipal emergency money of this period.
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Descrizione del rovescio The reverse carries a vignette of the chapel at the Gliwice cemetery, a site historically significant as a location where sabotaged armaments were concealed prior to detonation during the plebiscite-era tensions in Upper Silesia. The imagery serves as a direct visual reference to the political and military circumstances surrounding the transfer of the Knurów district to Poland, consistent with the commemorative intent of this Notgeld issue.
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Commenti

Knurów was a small industrial commune in Upper Silesia, and this 1 Mark notgeld dates to an acutely unstable moment: the region had only just been partitioned following the 1921 plebiscite and the Third Silesian Uprising, with the League of Nations award dividing territory between Germany and Poland in October 1921. Knurów itself fell to Poland. By 1922, the newly assigned Polish administration was still operating within a German-denominated monetary framework during the transitional period before full zloty integration.

Local notgeld of this type was a practical stop-gap, issued by commune authorities to address small-denomination shortages when central supply chains were disrupted by the political handover.