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1 Kopiejka Magistrat Miasta Częstochowy
| Issuer | Magistrat Miasta Częstochowy (Municipality of Częstochowa) |
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| Year | 1916 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The upper half of the note is white and carries the issuer's name in bold letterpress at the top, followed by the text of the redemption pledge in Polish. A large numeral '1' appears at the lower left against a dark reddish-brown underprint panel, with the denomination 'KOP.' to its right. Two facsimile signatures of the First and Second Burgomasters and the Chairman of the City Council are handwritten across the lower right portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | MAGISTRAT M. CZĘSTOCHOWY BON NINIEJSZY NA JEDNĄ KOPIEJKĘ WYDANY PRZEZ MAGISTRAT M.CZĘSTOCHOWY BĘDZIE WYMIENIONY OKAZICIELOWI NA MO- NETĘ PAŃSTWOWĄ W CIĄGU TRZECH MIESIĘ- CY PO PODPISANIU TRAKTATU POKOJOWEGO 1 KOP. I. Burmistrz II. Burmistrz Przewodnik Rady Miejskiej |
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Częstochowa's municipal emergency issues of 1916 belong to the broader phenomenon of Polish town authorities printing their own small-denomination currency during the German and Austro-Hungarian occupation of the First World War. With Russian imperial coinage hoarded or evacuated eastward and no reliable substitute supplied by the occupying administration, hundreds of Polish municipalities resorted to paper fractions — locally authorized, locally printed, and trusted only as far as the issuing town's name carried weight.
At under 60mm in its longest dimension, this note was printed and redeemed entirely within Częstochowa's own economy. Few survived intact; small fractional notes of this type were physically fragile and discarded the moment more durable currency became available after 1918.