10 Pfennig

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.