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10 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Graudenz and Kreisausschuss des Landkreises Graudenz |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 10 Mark |
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| Obverse description | The reverse of this Kriegsnotgeld note bears a green geometric underprint with a dotted scalloped border enclosing the denomination numeral '10' in each corner. The issuing authority 'Stadt- und Landkreis Graudenz' is set in Gothic blackletter type above the large central denomination legend 'Zehn Mark', with a serial number field at top centre and a validity disclaimer in small Gothic script at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The obverse is printed on a pale green dotted underprint and enclosed by a decorative floral and foliate letterpress border. The text, set in Gothic blackletter script, records the place and date of issue 'Graudenz, den 21. Oktober 1918' below an anti-counterfeiting warning, with the dual issuing authorities named in two columns flanking facsimile signatures. At the foot, a central vignette presents a skyline view of Graudenz with castle ruins and church towers, flanked by two circular official stamps: the municipal seal of the Magistrat der Stadt Graudenz bearing a bull's-head coat of arms, and the Königlicher Landrat seal of the Landkreis Graudenz displaying a Prussian eagle. |
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Graudenz — now Grudziądz in northern Poland — was still firmly within the German Empire when this note was issued in 1918, and the dual authority behind it is the telling detail: both the municipal Magistrat and the rural Landkreis administration co-signed, a practical solution when the Reichsbank could no longer supply adequate small-denomination currency to outlying districts during the final year of the war. Notgeld of this kind was not officially sanctioned so much as tolerated out of necessity.
The city was ceded to Poland under the Treaty of Versailles in 1920, making the window of legitimate German municipal issue here unusually short.