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10 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Allenstein |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Size | 145 × 95 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears the redemption and legal text associated with the note's validity conditions, rendered in Fraktur typeface consistent with the obverse. The text references the issuing municipality of Allenstein and restates the denomination and date of issue. The overall design is plain and text-based, characteristic of wartime German municipal Notgeld. |
| Reverse lettering | Kassenschein Der Stadtgemeinde Allenstein über Zehn Mark Allenstein, den 30. Oktober 1918 |
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Allenstein's municipal notgeld emerged from the acute coin shortage that struck German-administered towns in the final year of the First World War, when the Reichsbank could no longer guarantee adequate small-denomination circulation. The Stadtgemeinde — the municipal government — was authorized to issue emergency money against its own credit, a stop-gap arrangement that proliferated across hundreds of German and Austrian towns simultaneously in 1918.
Allenstein itself sits in what was then East Prussia, a region that would vote in the July 1920 plebiscite to remain within Germany rather than join Poland — one of the few such votes that actually went decisively in Germany's favor. Whether any of these notes were still in local hands by that vote is unlikely; municipal notgeld of this type was generally withdrawn within months of issue.