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10 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Flatow (District Committee of Flatow, West Prussia) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein d. Kreises Flatow 10 Pf. Zahlbar bei der Kreiskommunalkasse in Flatow Flatow, den 14. Februar 1917 Der Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses Gültig bis 1. Oktober 1918 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain olive-tan paper surface with no text, vignette, or decorative elements of any kind. |
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Flatow — today Złotów in northwestern Poland — issued this note in 1917 as part of the vast wave of municipal and district emergency currency that flooded Germany once wartime metal shortages made small coin production unsustainable. The Kreisausschuss, the elected administrative committee overseeing the rural Flatow district, had the legal authority to authorize such issues under Prussian administrative law, and thousands of similar Notgeld authorities exercised the same right across the Reich that year.
Local printing for district-level Notgeld was overwhelmingly common, and Flatow was no exception — the note was almost certainly produced by a regional press rather than a specialist security printer, which accounts for the relatively simple execution typical of Kreis-level issues.