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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat zu Bromberg (Posen) |
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| Year | 1916-1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über 10 Pf. in Worten: Zehn Pfennig. Bromberg, den 7. Dezember 1916. Der Magistrat. Gültig bis 1. April 1918. MAGISTRAT ZU BROMBERG. |
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| Signature(s) | Mitzlaff and Aronsohn |
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Bromberg — now Bydgoszcz in northern Poland — was a majority German-speaking administrative center within the Prussian Province of Posen, an area of contested German-Polish identity long before the First World War settled nothing and the 1919 Treaty of Versailles settled everything, transferring the city to the newly reconstituted Polish state. This Magistrat-issued Notgeld emerged from the acute small-change shortage that gripped German municipal economies from 1916 onward, as metal coinage disappeared into the war economy.
The dual-signature arrangement — Mitzlaff alongside Aronsohn — reflects the civic bureaucratic structure of a Prussian Magistrat, where financial instruments required countersignature by senior municipal officers.