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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Der Magistrat der Stadt Fraustadt |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Plain green note with a fine guilloche-style wavy line underprint across the entire field, the large numeral '10' and 'Zehn Pfennig' legend printed in darker green at the top. A rectangular text panel in the lower left sets out the redemption conditions in German blackletter script, while the lower right bears a circular official seal of the Magistrat der Stadt Fraustadt with a heraldic device at its centre. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 Zehn Pfennig Die Einlösung dieses Scheines muß bis zum 31. Dezember 1918 bei der Stadthauptkasse der Stadt Fraustadt erfolgt sein, andernfalls der Schein verfällt. Der Magistrat der Stadt Fraustadt. |
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Fraustadt — now Wschowa in western Poland — was a small Silesian town with no monetary authority of any consequence. That a municipal magistrate was issuing paper Pfennig in 1917 reflects just how completely the German small-coin supply had collapsed under wartime metal requisitioning. Copper, nickel, and zinc were being pulled from circulation for munitions production, leaving ordinary commerce without workable change.
Carl Flemming of Glogau was a natural choice for this kind of contract — the firm had been printing regional commercial and administrative material for decades and could turn around small Notgeld runs efficiently. Thousands of German municipalities commissioned similar emergency issues that year.