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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Bad Sulza |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown and black on cream-coloured paper with an ornamental scroll border framing the entire note. A vertical panel on the left carries the large numeral '10' above the word 'Pfennig' and, below a dividing rule, the circular municipal seal of Stadtgemeinde Bad Sulza. The main field bears the heading 'Stadtgemeinde Bad Sulza.' in Gothic Fraktur script at top, with the denomination expressed both in numerals ('10 10') flanking the central text 'Gutschein über Zehn Pfennig.' and the issue date 'Bad Sulza, den 1. Mai 1917.' A large circular underprint of the municipal seal appears at centre, and the legend 'Der Gemeindevorstand.' is followed by a manuscript signature; at the foot runs the validity clause in italic letterpress. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Bad Sulza. 10 Gutschein über Zehn Pfennig. 10 Bad Sulza, den 1. Mai 1917. Der Gemeindevorstand. Gültig nur im Bezirk der Stadtgemeinde Bad Sulza. |
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Bad Sulza was a small spa town in Thuringia, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1917, it issued emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — to compensate for the disappearance of metal coinage, which had been pulled from circulation for the war effort. These municipal issues were authorized under wartime necessity rather than any central banking framework, with each Stadtgemeinde responsible for its own redemption guarantee.
The printed date of 30 April 1945 is almost certainly a catalog or typographical error — that date falls on the final day of the Third Reich's functional collapse, when Bad Sulza itself was already under American occupation.