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3 Mark
| Issuer | Klodnitz (Upper Silesia), Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Grass, Barth & Comp. (W. Friedrich), Breslau, Poland |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour Notgeld note with a red border framing the entire design. The central vignette presents a bare, leafless tree growing from the Klodnitz municipal coat of arms — a shield with a mill wheel motif set against a yellow and white background with vertical line underprint. Denomination numerals '3' and 'M' appear in olive green within yellow panels at upper left and upper right; the lower left panel carries the validity clause in Gothic script, the lower right records the issuing authority and date, and the bottom banner reads 'Klodnitz = Oderhafen' in bold Gothic lettering. The printer's imprint 'GRASS, BARTH & COMP. W. FRIEDRICH BRESLAU' and series designation 'SERIE 1 bis 8' appear in the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 3 M Gültig bis 1 Monat nach Aufforderung Klodnitz, 1. Juli 1921. v. Gem. Vorst. Klodnitz = Oderhafen SERIE 1 bis 8 GRASS, BARTH & COMP. W. FRIEDRICH BRESLAU |
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This note dates to the plebiscite period in Upper Silesia, when the League of Nations administered the region ahead of the March 1921 vote on partition between Germany and Poland. Municipal notgeld of this type was emergency fractional currency, filling the gap left by chronic coin shortages that had persisted since the war. Klodnitz — now Kłodnica — fell ultimately within the German-retained zone after the plebiscite result, though the subsequent boundary decision by the League in 1921 awarded much of the industrial corridor to Poland.
Grass, Barth & Comp. handled a substantial volume of Silesian municipal notgeld during this period from their Breslau press.