50 Pfennigs Exin

Exin — today Kcynia in north-central Poland — was part of the Prussian Province of Posen when this note was issued in 1918. The town sat in a region of persistent ethnic tension between German administrators and a majority Polish population, and the final months of the war brought acute small-change shortages severe enough to push even minor municipal magistrates into emergency paper issuance. Notes of this type, collectively called Notgeld, were produced by the thousands across Germany and occupied territories during 1917–1918, but the Exin issues are genuinely scarce — the town itself had fewer than 3,000 inhabitants at the time.

After the Versailles settlement of 1919, Exin passed to the newly reconstituted Polish state, making any surviving civic documents from its German administrative period doubly marginal to both national collecting traditions.