2 Mark Gmina Knurów

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.