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1 Mark - Gleiwitz Drahtwerke
| Issuer | Drahtwerke Gleiwitz (Gleiwitz Wire Works) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The field is enclosed by an outer beaded border and an inner beaded circle, forming an annular legend band. The circular legend reads DRAHTWERKE GLEIWITZ in the upper arc and WERTMARKE in the lower arc, flanked by two five-pointed stars at the lateral extremities. At center, within the inner beaded circle, the large numeral 1 is displayed with two raised horizontal dashes beneath, and two small raised dots to its right, denoting the denomination of 1 Mark. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Gleiwitz, now Gliwice in southwestern Poland, was a major industrial center in Upper Silesia — a region so economically contested that its postwar status was settled by a League of Nations plebiscite in 1921. The Drahtwerke, a wire and cable manufacturing operation, issued this iron notgeld during the acute coin shortages of World War I, when the German government had stripped copper and nickel from circulation for weapons production. Factory-issued coinage of this type was redeemable only within the issuing company's own payroll and canteen system, effectively tying workers' purchasing power to a single employer.