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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Marienwerder (City of Marienwerder) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The face of this Notgeld note is printed in dark green ink on lilac-tinted paper, with the denomination numeral "10" at each corner and "PF" in two opposing corners within ornamental roundels. A central vignette presents a view of the Marienwerder Cathedral (Dom) framed by a rectangular border, with the issuing authority inscription "Der Magistrat" below, accompanied by two manuscript signatures. The legend "Notgeldschein d. Stadt Marienwerder" arches across the top in Gothic blackletter script, flanked by the repeated text "über 10 Pfg." on each side. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Notgeldschein d. Stadt Marienwerder über 10 Pfg. über 10 Pfg. PF PF Der Magistrat 10 (Translation: 10 Emergency money note of the City of Marienwerder, over 10 Pfennig, over 10 Pfennig, PF PF, The Magistrate, 10) |
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Marienwerder — now Kwidzyn in northern Poland — was one of the towns caught in the administrative chaos following the First World War. Its Notgeld issues emerged from a genuine local currency shortage, not as collectibles, though the collector trade quickly absorbed them. The city sat in the contested West Prussia region, subject to the 1920 plebiscite that ultimately kept it within Germany by a wide margin, a result that did little to stabilize commercial life in the short term.