Catalog
10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Amtsausschuss Koberg (District of Koberg) |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Issued in red and black on cream paper, the obverse is dominated by a large decorative numeral '10' in red at the top centre, above the text 'GÜLTIG IM' set in a black banner cartouche, below which 'AMTSBEZIRK KOBERG' appears in bold red letterpress. The upper legend reads 'NOTGELDSCHEIN' in large block capitals framed by a dentilated border. The lower half presents a decorative scroll cartouche containing a lengthy Latin historical text attributed to Adam von Bremen, with the designer's attribution 'P.H. Keller Dresden' visible at the upper right of the scroll; below, the issuing authority line 'DER AMTSAUSSCHUSS:' is followed by two facsimile manuscript signatures, and the printer's imprint 'FLEMMING-WISKOTT A.-G. GLOGAU' appears at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELDSCHEIN 10 GÜLTIG IM AMTSBEZIRK KOBERG INVENIMUS QUOQUE LIMITEM/SAXONIAE, QUAE TRANS ALBIAM EST, PRAESCRIPTUM A KAROLO ET IMPERATORIBUS/CETERISITA SE CONTINENTEM. HOC EST/AB/ALBIAE RIPA ORIENTALI USQUE AD RIVULUM, QUEM/SCLAVI MESCEN-REIZA/VOCANT, A QUO/SURSUM LIMES CURRIT PER SILVAM DELVUNDER USQUE IN FLUVIUM DELVUNDUM, SICQUE PERVENIT IN HORCHENBIZI ET BILENISPRING, INDE/AD/LIVDVINE-STEIN/ET/VISBIRCON ET BIRZNIC. PROGREDITUR ... (ADAM V. BREMEN) DER AMTSAUSSCHUSS: FLEMMING-WISKOTT A.-G. GLOGAU. |
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Koberg is a small locality in Holstein, and its Amtsausschuss — a rural district administrative committee — issued this note as Notgeld during the emergency currency shortages that plagued Germany after the First World War. The pairing of Carl Flemming & Wiskott, a Glogau firm with a long history in commercial printing and securities work, with a Dresden-based designer like P. H. Keller was entirely typical of how even minor provincial issuers could produce surprisingly polished small-denomination scrip through established trade networks.
Glogau was German territory at the time of printing; the "Poland" designation in modern catalog data reflects postwar boundary changes, not the political reality under which this note was produced.