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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Christburg |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
| Protection description | Circular violet ink town seal of Christburg hand-stamped on the reverse as an authentication device. |
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Christburg — now Dzierzgoń in northern Poland — was a small East Prussian town that, like hundreds of German municipalities, resorted to locally issued Notgeld when the postwar coin shortage made small-change transactions nearly impossible. The Magistrat series was one of several overlapping emergency issues from the same town, which is why the DeNG reference system assigns this note a sub-variety designation rather than treating it as a standalone issue.
The official stamp serves as the primary authentication mechanism — without it, the note was considered invalid, a distinction that mattered in towns where counterfeit or unauthorized Notgeld occasionally entered circulation alongside legitimate issues.