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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kämmerei-Kasse Schwersenz (City of Schwersenz, Prussian province of Posen) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Gut für 10 Pfennig Schwersenz, den 1. Januar 1917. Die Kämmerei-Kasse. KÄMMEREI-KASSE * SCHWERSENZ * 1638 Richard Krahl Bromberg |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted save for a faint show-through of the obverse design visible through the thin paper stock, with the same geometric guilloche border pattern partially discernible in mirror image. The centre field is otherwise plain and uninscribed. The printer's imprint 'Richard Krahl Bromberg' appears in mirror image at the lower edge. |
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Schwersenz — today Swarzędz, a small town east of Poznań — was firmly within the German-administered province of Posen when this note was issued in 1917. The acute shortage of small coinage that year, caused by wartime metal requisitioning, forced hundreds of Prussian municipal treasuries to print their own low-denomination Notgeld. The Kämmerei-Kasse, the municipal cashier's office, had direct authority to do so without seeking approval from Berlin.
Richard Krahl in Bromberg was the obvious choice for small provincial commissions of this kind — a local commercial printer, not a security specialist. Alignment irregularities and ink inconsistencies are common across Krahl-produced Notgeld from this period.