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10 Rubli Magistrat Miasta Częstochowy
| Issuer | Magistrat Miasta Częstochowy (Municipality of Częstochowa) |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Violet on light guilloche underprint, with the municipal coat of arms of Częstochowa in an oval vignette at left, showing a fortified tower above a shield with a crowned eagle, flanked by oak branches and crossed swords, with the year 1915 below. The upper right carries a five-line Polish-language redemption text in letterpress, below which the serial number and series designation appear flanking a large ornate numeral '10' within a foliate cartouche bearing the denomination DZIESIĘĆ RUBLI. Signatures of the Prezydent and four Radni (councillors) appear in manuscript at the lower portion, within a chain-link border frame. |
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| Reverse description | Violet on a dense guilloche underprint with a scalloped outer border, the centre occupied by a rectangular panel with ornate corner flourishes enclosing an oval cartouche bearing a five-line anti-counterfeiting warning text in Polish. Denomination numerals '10' appear in large ornate frames to the left and right of the central cartouche. The issuer's name is repeated in letterpress across the top and bottom of the central panel. The printer's imprint appears in small text at the lower left margin. |
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Częstochowa's municipal emergency money was issued in 1915 under German occupation, when the occupying authorities had effectively stripped the local economy of hard currency. Dozens of Polish towns issued their own notgeld-style scrip that year, but Częstochowa's series is notable for being produced by a local printer — Kohn, Odress — rather than routed to any German or Austrian commercial press. That decision kept production close and fast, which mattered in a city that served as a significant logistical node on the German eastern front supply lines.
Paper quality and ink consistency vary considerably across surviving examples, a direct consequence of wartime supply constraints on the printer.