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10 Mark - Thale am Harz
| Issuer | City of Thale am Harz |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse lettering | Thale a/Harz 10 ✶ Mark ✶ 1921 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Thale's 1921 notgeld issue belongs to the short-lived wave of enamelled iron emergency coinage produced by German municipalities during the currency chaos following World War I. The enamelling process — applied to iron blanks rather than the more typical zinc or aluminum — was chosen by a handful of issuers for durability and visual distinction, though it made production considerably more expensive than the crisis supposedly warranted. Thale itself, a small industrial town at the edge of the Harz Mountains, had ironworking infrastructure that made the choice of ferrous blanks locally logical.