Catalog
10 Kopiejek
| Issuer | Częstochowskie Towarzystwo Pożyczkowo-Oszczędnościowe (Częstochowa Loan and Savings Society) |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Value | 10 Kopiejek (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | Częstochowskie Towarzystwo Pożyczkowo-Oszczędnościowe Wypłaci za zwrotem niniejszego kwitu w ciągu 3ch miesięcy po zawarciu pokoju 10. Kop. (Dziesięć Kopiejek) Rada Zarząd Kontrola Częstochowa w Listopadzie 1914 r. (Translation: Częstochowa Loan and Savings Society / Will pay upon return of this receipt within 3 months after the conclusion of peace / 10 Kopecks (Ten Kopecks) / Council / Board / Control / Częstochowa in November 1914) |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in violet-purple on plain paper, the reverse carries a large decorative guilloche underprint with the numeral "10" repeated vertically on both lateral margins. The bold denomination word "KOPIEJEK" is set in large display letters across the centre of the guilloche field, flanked by the numerals. Two blocks of Polish text appear above and below the central denomination: an authorization notice and an anti-counterfeiting warning. The printer's imprint "F.D. Wilmoszewski, Czest." is present at the lower right. |
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Emergency municipal scrip issued at the outbreak of World War One, when the Russian Empire's monetary system began seizing up across its Polish territories and small change vanished almost overnight from circulation. Częstochowa sat directly in the path of the Central Powers' advance, and local savings institutions stepped into the vacuum before any official sanction arrived.
Printed locally by Wilmoszewski rather than a specialist security printer, which shows in the relatively modest production values typical of Polish municipal emergency issues of this period. Dratyński's involvement suggests the society made at least some effort at professional design rather than pure utility printing.