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10 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Lauenburg i. Pom. |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Lauenburg i. Pom. Kriegsnotgeld 10 Mark Dieser Kriegsnotgeldschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung bei der Stadthauptkasse zu Lauenburg i. Pom. zur Einlösung vorgelegt wird. Lauenburg i. Pom., den 15. November 1918. Der Magistrat der Stadt Lauenburg i. Pom. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on a uniform dot-pattern guilloche ground, divided into three horizontal registers. The denomination "ZEHN MARK" appears in large decorative serif capitals within a plain rectangular panel at both the top and bottom of the note, while a central white cartouche carries the guarantee text in smaller letterpress type. |
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Lauenburg in Pommern — today Lębork, Poland — was among hundreds of German municipalities that issued notgeld during the First World War as federal coinage disappeared from circulation, hoarded by a public that trusted metal over paper. The Magistrat series from 1918 falls into the early, utilitarian wave of municipal emergency money, before the inflationary spiral of the early 1920s turned notgeld into a collector commodity deliberately printed for trade.
Ten Mark was a relatively high denomination for local notgeld of this period, suggesting it was intended to cover payroll or bulk transactions rather than everyday retail use.