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1 Mark
| Issuer | Polska Krajowa Kasa Pożyczkowa (Polish State Loan Bank) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Value | 1 Mark (1 Marka) |
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| Obverse lettering | JEDNA MARKA POLSKA Rzesza Niemiecka przyjmuje odpo- wiedzialność za spłatę biletów Polskiej Krajowej Kasy Pożyczkowej w Markach Niemieckich po cenie nominalnej Zarząd Generał- Gubernatorstwa Warszawskiego Warszawa, dn. 9-go grudnia 1916 roku. Kto podrabia lub fałszuje bilety Polskiej Krajowej Kasy Pożyczkowej, albo puszcza w obieg lub usiłuje puścić w obieg podrobione lub fałszowane bilety, podlega karze ciężkiego więzienia. (Translation: One Polish Mark The German Reich assumes responsibility for repayment of the banknotes of the Polish State Loan Bank in German Marks at face value Management of the General-Government of Warsaw Warsaw, 9 December 1916. Whoever counterfeits or falsifies banknotes of the Polish State Loan Bank, or circulates or attempts to circulate counterfeit or falsified banknotes, is subject to the penalty of hard imprisonment.) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Polska Krajowa Kasa Pożyczkowa was not an independent Polish institution in any meaningful sense — it was established in December 1916 by the German occupying administration to replace Russian ruble circulation in the German-controlled General Government of Warsaw with a new mark-based currency. The bank's Polish name was largely cosmetic, a concession to the fiction of the nominally independent Kingdom of Poland proclaimed that same year.
Reichsdruckerei in Berlin printed the entire series. The watermarked paper was the primary security measure for the low denominations, where elaborate intaglio work was considered uneconomical.