2 Mark Gmina Knurów

Obverse description	Commemorative emergency currency (Notgeld) issued to mark the annexation of Knurów to Poland. The obverse carries a vignette of the Knurów colliery, rendered in a printwork typical of early 1920s local emergency issues. Text inscription identifies the note as commemorative surrogate money tied to the historical event.
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Reverse description	The reverse bears a vignette of the chapel site at the Gliwice cemetery, commemorating the spot where fifteen French soldiers lost their lives in an explosion of mined munitions. The scene is accompanied by a commemorative inscription referencing the tragic event, consistent with the memorial character of this Notgeld issue.
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Comments	Knurów was a coal-mining township in Upper Silesia whose fate was decided by the 1921 plebiscite — it fell to Germany, and the resulting administrative limbo left municipalities scrambling to cover small-denomination shortages that neither Berlin nor local banks were moving quickly to resolve. The Gmina's issuance of notgeld was a direct consequence of that transitional vacuum. Upper Silesian municipal notgeld from 1922 is frequently underrepresented in collections simply because many townships printed short runs for purely local use, with no expectation of wider circulation.