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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisstadt Guhrau (Lower Silesia), City Magistrate |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Pink and brown Notgeld note printed on plain paper with a decorative guilloche underprint and an ornamental border incorporating stylized windmill vignettes at each corner. To the left, the municipal coat of arms of Guhrau shows a crenellated tower with a bishop figure below; at centre the denomination '10' is printed in large bold numerals flanked by 'Pf.' abbreviations on either side. A boxed inscription at right reads 'Einlösungsstelle die Kämmereikasse in Guhrau,' and the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat' appears above two manuscript signatures with a serial number. |
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| Reverse lettering | NOTGELD DER KREISSTADT GUHRAU 10 RATHAUS |
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Guhrau — today Góra, in southwestern Poland — issued this Notgeld piece in 1920 as part of the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany following the collapse of the Imperial economy and the chronic coin shortages of the early Weimar years. The Kreisstadt designation placed Guhrau as an administrative district center within Lower Silesia, giving the town's magistrate the practical authority to authorize local scrip of this kind.
Selmar Bayer of Berlin was a minor commercial printer who handled Notgeld commissions for numerous small municipalities — workmanlike output, not collector-targeted art issues.