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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lyck (City of Lyck), Masuren |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Grey diamond-pattern guilloche underprint across the entire field. Two heraldic shields occupy the centre: at left, a green shield bearing a classical male bust in profile; at right, a grey shield charged with a black cross. The large numeral "10" in bold Gothic type is printed between the shields. Blackletter inscriptions at top read "Masurens Hauptstadt Lyck"; flanking text columns record the plebiscite result of 11 July 1920, noting that 8,339 votes were cast for Germany and only 7 for Poland. Date "Lyck, Masuren, den 1. Oktober 1920" appears at lower left, a red serial number at centre bottom, and two manuscript signatures to the right above the authority text "Der Magistrat"; validity clause at foot reads "Gültig bis einen Monat nach öffentlicher Bekanntmachung." |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 Wild flutet der See! Drauf schaukelt der Schiffer den schwankenden Kahn. Schaum wälzt er wie Schnee Von grausiger Mitte zum Ufer hinan. Wild fluten die Wogen auf Vaterlands Seen. Wie schön! O tragt mich auf Spiegeln zu Hügeln Masovias See! Masoviastrand, mein Heimatland, Masovia lebe, mein Vaterland! |
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Lyck — now Ełk, in northeastern Poland — was at the center of the July 1920 plebiscite that determined whether southern East Prussia would remain German or join the newly reconstituted Polish state. The vote went overwhelmingly for Germany, roughly 97% in the Lyck district, but the political uncertainty in the preceding months had severely disrupted normal commerce and coin supplies, prompting dozens of East Prussian municipalities to issue Notgeld of their own.
Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau printed enormous quantities of small-denomination municipal emergency currency across the region during this period — efficient, formulaic work, but competently executed for notes that were never meant to circulate beyond a few kilometers.