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20 Mark
| Issuer | Kreis Grätz (District of Grätz) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned Notgeld voucher printed on plain paper, with an elaborate geometric and foliate guilloche border framing the entire face. The denomination '20 Mark' is set in bold Fraktur script at the top, above the central text panel bearing the guarantee clause and issue date; to the left of the text, a circular official seal of the Kreis Grätz carries an eagle vignette. A handwritten facsimile signature of the chairman of the district committee appears at the lower centre, alongside the alphanumeric serial number at lower left and the numeral '20' repeated at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Mark Gutschein über Zwanzig Mark Verbürgt durch den Kreis Grätz. Gültig bis zum 1. Februar 1919. Grätz, den 10. November 1918. Der Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses. I.V.: Einlösestellen: Kreis-Hauptkasse u. Kreis-Sparkasse in Grätz. Kämmereikassen und städt. Sparkassen in Buk, Grätz u. Opalenitza. |
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Kreis Grätz was a rural administrative district in the Posen province — territory that became part of the newly reconstituted Polish state in 1919 following the Greater Poland Uprising. This note was issued in 1918 as a Notgeld, the emergency local currency that proliferated across the collapsing German home front as coin disappeared from circulation and central supply chains broke down.
The town of Grätz is now Grodzisk Wielkopolski. Notes issued here had an extremely short window of practical relevance — the political transfer of Posen province rendered German-denominated district scrip functionally worthless within months of issue.