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10 Pfennig Exin
| Issuer | Magistrat Exin |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Small coupon-format note printed on smooth, firm white paper. A light brown underprint stamp occupies the center field, framed by a black dotted border. Black letterpress text carries the denomination, issuing authority, place and date of issue, and validity inscription. |
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| Reverse description | Plain white paper reverse, unprinted, with no decorative elements or vignettes. |
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Exin — now Kcynia in west-central Poland — was a small Prussian market town with a predominantly German municipal administration when this note was issued in 1917. The acute coin shortage that followed German wartime metal requisitioning forced hundreds of minor municipalities to issue their own Kleingeldersatz, and the Magistrat here did exactly that. Richard Krahl in Bromberg (Bydgoszcz) was the natural choice: a regional commercial printer serving the administrative needs of the Netze district, not a specialist currency firm.
The 43.5 × 42 mm format — nearly square — is atypical even within the notgeld series, where small dimensions are common but rarely this close to equilateral.