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10 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Chemnitz (City of Chemnitz) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 10 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Green and ochre letterpress Notgeld voucher dated 28 October 1918, with the large gothic script denomination "Zehn Mark" dominating the upper half against a tan underprint. To the left, a detailed vignette of the Chemnitz New Town Hall with its characteristic tower is rendered in fine line engraving; at centre, an ornate cartouche displays the city coat of arms flanked by baroque scrollwork. The right panel carries the issuing authority text, two facsimile signatures above the titles "Oberbürgermeister" and "Stadtrat", and a small circular municipal seal, all within a chain-link decorative border with "ZEHN MARK" repeated in the corner panels. |
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| Reverse description | Green and ochre reverse centred on a large landscape vignette of a Gothic church with a tall spire reflected in a river, set amid trees and rendered in fine letterpress engraving. Denomination panels "10 ZEHN MARK" appear at left and right, framed by ornamental cartouches with oak-leaf and crossed-tools motifs. Two rectangular text panels, one at the top and one at the bottom, carry the expiry conditions and the counterfeiting penalty warning respectively, all enclosed within a chequered outer border; the printer's imprint "J. C. F. Pickenhahn & Sohn, Chemnitz" appears in the bottom margin below the border. |
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Chemnitz was one of Germany's most industrialized cities by 1918, and its municipal administration was among the hundreds of local authorities forced to issue Notgeld that year as the Reichsbank's small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or consumed by wartime metal demands. Stadt Chemnitz turned to Pickenhahn & Sohn, a local commercial printer with no particular banknote pedigree, which was entirely typical of emergency municipal issues: proximity mattered more than security printing credentials.
Pickenhahn's civilian print origins show in the lithographic execution — functional, not fine.