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10 Pfennig Neustadt in Westpreußen
| Issuer | Magistrat Neustadt in Westpreußen |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-grey paper note of austere typeset design, with all text rendered in bold blackletter (Fraktur) typeface. The denomination voucher legend occupies the upper half in three lines of decreasing size, followed by the issuing locality, full date, and issuing authority; two handwritten manuscript signatures appear in the lower right quadrant beneath the printed text. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über zehn Pfennig. Neustadt Wpr., den 5. August 1914. Der Magistrat. (Translation: Voucher for ten Pfennigs. Neustadt West Prussia, 5 August 1914. The Magistrate.) |
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Neustadt in Westpreußen — now Wejherowo in northern Poland — was a small administrative town in the Province of West Prussia, and like hundreds of similar municipalities across the German Empire, it scrambled to issue its own emergency small-change notes in the autumn of 1914 when coin hoarding stripped retail commerce of usable currency within weeks of mobilization. These municipal Notgeld issues were technically unauthorized at first; the Reichsbank and imperial treasury only retroactively accommodated the practice as the scale of the hoarding crisis became undeniable.
The Magistrat's backing for these notes was the town's general creditworthiness — no specific specie reserve, no formal guarantee from Berlin.