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1 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kämmerei-Kasse Schwersenz |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on pink paper, the obverse carries a geometric guilloche underprint in blue-violet with a decorative border of repeating diamond and triangle motifs. To the left, a circular official town seal of Schwersenz bears an engraved vignette of the city gate flanked by towers, with the date 1638 and the legend KÄMMEREI-KASSE SCHWERSENZ. The denomination and issuing authority are set in bold letterpress text to the right, accompanied by a manuscript facsimile signature of the municipal treasurer. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gut für 1 Pfennig Schwersenz, den 1. Januar 1917. Die Kämmerei-Kasse. KÄMMEREI-KASSE SCHWERSENZ Richard Krahl Bromberg |
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Schwersenz — now Swarzędz, east of Poznań — was a small Prussian market town with a Jewish majority population when its municipal treasury issued this emergency piece in 1917. The Kämmerei-Kasse, the town's cashier office, resorted to privately printed Notgeld as the wartime coin shortage stripped everyday transactions of workable small change. Richard Krahl's Bromberg press supplied dozens of such municipal clients across the Posen province that year.
The pink paper stock is a distinguishing feature across the S65 series variants — the 5a suffix denotes a specific paper or print state distinction tracked by German notgeld specialists.