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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Eisleben (City of Eisleben) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 54 × 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Pink and dark brown Notgeld note with a central vignette of the Eisleben municipal coat of arms — a blue shield charged with a white winged motif — set within an ornate dark guilloche border. The denomination numeral '10' appears in white on dark panels at upper left and right. Below the arms, the text 'Gutschein Zehn Pfennig' is rendered in bold Gothic script, with the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat / Oberbürgermeister' and the date 'den 1. Okt. 1920' printed beneath. Vertical marginal text runs along both side borders, and the printer's imprint 'Otto Hennig A.-G., Greiz.' appears at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 Pfennig Stadtgemeinde Eisleben |
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Eisleben issued this 10 Pfennig note in 1920 as part of the broader Kleingeldersatz emergency — the postwar coin shortage that forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own low-denomination paper. Otto Henning A.G. in Greiz was one of the smaller regional printers that picked up this work during that window, producing runs for multiple Thuringian and Saxon towns simultaneously.
Eisleben itself was already trading on its identity as Luther's birthplace by this period, and local Notgeld series from the town frequently leaned into that association for collector appeal — the line between genuine emergency currency and souvenir issue was thin by late 1920.