2 Mark Exin

Exin — now Kcynia in north-central Poland — was a small Prussian market town in Posen Province, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in late 1914, its Stadtkasse issued emergency Kleingeldscheine when the outbreak of war triggered an almost immediate hoarding of metal coinage. The Reichsbank could not plug the gap fast enough, so local authorities were left to paper over the shortage themselves, literally.

The DeNG 11#96.3 reference places this within the broader Notgeld documentation for the Posen region. At 2 Mark, this sits at the upper end of what most Stadtkassen issued in that first wave — most municipalities stopped at 50 Pfennig or 1 Mark, making the 2 Mark denomination the less commonly encountered piece from this issuer.