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10 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Kreisstadt Wreschen |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper note with an ornate guilloche border framing the entire face. The denomination "Zehn Mark" is rendered in large decorative Fraktur script at the centre, with the numeral 10 repeated in the upper corners within guilloche roundels. The issuer inscription "Kreisstadt Wreschen" appears at the top, below which the word "Gutschein" (voucher) is printed alongside a handstamped serial number. A validity clause and two manuscript signatures of municipal officials appear in the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | ZEHN MARK 10 10 ZEHN MARK |
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Wreschen — known today as Września in central Poland — was a Prussian administrative center whose name became internationally notorious in 1901 when local schoolchildren were flogged for refusing to answer religious instruction in German. The strike and the beatings drew outrage across Europe and became a rallying point for Polish national sentiment under Wilhelmine rule.
This Magistrat-issued notgeld almost certainly dates from the 1914–1923 period of emergency municipal currency, when hundreds of small German and German-administered towns printed their own low-denomination paper to address acute coin shortages. Whether the town's particular history influenced any aspect of its issue is not documented.