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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Heidelberg |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Printer | August Osterrieth, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | O-Muster (Keller #74) |
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| Comments |
Heidelberg's municipal government entered the emergency money market in 1917 under the same pressure hitting hundreds of German towns simultaneously: Reichsbank coin had vanished into hoarding and metal requisitions, leaving retailers unable to make change. The Stadtgemeinde's solution was this Osterrieth-printed Kleingeldschein, produced in Frankfurt and distributed locally as a stop-gap the issuing authorities presumably hoped would be temporary.
The watermark security feature is worth noting — many comparable municipal issues from this period dispensed with it entirely, suggesting Heidelberg's administrators were at least nominally concerned about counterfeiting, or simply had a printer with the right stock on hand.