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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Fraustadt (Posen), Magistrat |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large oval vignette enclosing a detailed letterpress view of the Fraustadt town hall, a substantial neo-Gothic brick building with a central tower, arched windows, and flanking annexes set against an open square. Numerals "10" appear in each corner against a plain brown background, and a scalloped border frames the entire note. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 |
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Fraustadt — today Wschowa, in what is now western Poland — was part of the Prussian Province of Posen when this note was issued. Like hundreds of German municipalities, the Magistrat turned to small-denomination emergency paper (Notgeld) during the First World War once coins vanished from circulation, hoarded by a public that trusted metal over paper. Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau were among the more prolific regional printers serving this demand across Silesia and Posen.
The city changed hands in 1945 and was transferred to Poland under the Potsdam Agreement.