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50 Pfennig Exin
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Exin (City Treasury of Exin) |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über 0,50 Mark. Gegen Rückgabe dieses Gutscheines erhält der Inhaber 0,50 Mark von der Stadtkasse Exin ausgezahlt. Exin den 9. August 1914. Der Magistrat J. V. Stadtkasse |
| Reverse description | Uniface note; the reverse is blank cream paper with only the faint bleed-through of the obverse letterpress text visible, confirming single-sided printing. |
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Exin — known today as Kcynia in north-central Poland — was a small Prussian market town with a mixed German and Polish population when this note was issued in the opening weeks of the First World War. The sudden hoarding of metal coinage in August 1914 created an acute shortage of small change across Germany almost overnight, and hundreds of municipalities scrambled to print emergency Kleingeldscheine to keep local commerce moving. Exin's Stadtkasse was among the earliest to respond.
The DeNG reference places this among the rarer provincial issues — Exin was a minor administrative center, and surviving quantities are accordingly small.