Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1/2 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Fraustadt (Posen) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Carl Flemming AG, Glogau und Berlin, Germany |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Pale tan reverse with a fine wavy-line guilloche underprint covering the entire field, over which the denomination '1/2 Eine halbe Mark' is printed in large light-toned letterpress script. A rectangular text panel at lower left contains the validity clause in German Kurrent script, and to its right a circular official seal of the Magistrat der Stadt Fraustadt bears the municipal arms with a bishop figure and shield. |
| Reverse lettering | 1/2 Eine halbe Mark Die Gültigkeit dieses Scheines erlischt einen Monat nach öffentl. Aufforderung zur Einlösung. Der Magistrat der Stadt Fraustadt |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Fraustadt — now Wschowa in western Poland — was a small Prussian town in the Province of Posen, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it resorted to privately printed Notgeld when wartime metal shortages gutted the coinage supply. Carl Flemming AG, a well-established printing and publishing house in Glogau, handled enormous volumes of this kind of municipal emergency paper across Silesia and Posen during 1916–1918.
The Magistrat issues from Fraustadt are among the less-documented of the Posen series — the town had a mixed German-Polish population and was administratively absorbed into the new Polish state after 1918, which disrupted the local archival record considerably.