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2 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat Guhrau (City of Guhrau, Prussian Province of Silesia) |
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| Year | 1914-1915 |
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| Value | 2 Marks |
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| Obverse lettering | 2 M. Gut für zwei Mark. Der Magistrat Guhrau ZU GEHRAU |
| Reverse description | Unprinted plain grey-beige cardboard reverse, entirely blank with no text, vignette, or ornamentation, consistent with the emergency scrip (Notgeld) character of this issue. |
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Guhrau — now Góra, in present-day Poland — was one of hundreds of small Prussian municipalities that scrambled to print emergency Kleingeld in the opening weeks of World War I, when coin hoarding caused small-denomination currency to vanish almost entirely from circulation. The Magistrat issued these notes on its own authority, a stopgap measure made legal by the German imperial government's emergency ordinance of 31 July 1914.
The square cardboard format reflects the printer's practical constraints, not a design choice. Notgeld of this type was typically printed on whatever stock was locally available, which is why paper quality and thickness vary even within a single series suffix.