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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Zeulenroda |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Zeulenroda. 10 Gutschein über zehn Pfennige. Zeulenroda, den 10. Dez. 1916. Der Stadtgemeinde-Vorstand. Gültig nur im Stadtbezirk Zeulenroda. |
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| Reverse lettering | STADT ZEULENRODA REUSSAL |
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Zeulenroda's 1916 Notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency money that swept German towns after the Imperial government's wartime hoarding regulations drained small-denomination coins from everyday commerce. Pfennig coins — brass, copper, iron — disappeared almost overnight as metal became a military resource. Hundreds of municipalities printed their own stopgap paper rather than wait for a central solution that was slow in coming.
Stadtgemeinde Zeulenroda, a small textile town in Thuringia, was no exception. These notes were redeemable in principle but depended entirely on local goodwill and municipal solvency — neither of which was guaranteed by 1916.