Catalog
10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Goslar (City of Goslar) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Light blue guilloche-patterned ground covers the entire note, with the denomination numeral '10' printed in bold black within oval cartouches at upper left and upper right. A central rectangular vignette in mauve-brown tones carries an ornate rosette underprint over which the issuing authority and denomination are printed in blackletter script. Below the vignette, two lines of smaller text state the validity and redemption conditions, followed by the place and date of issue, the authority line 'Der Magistrat,' and a handwritten signature. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and plain, showing only the bleed-through impression of the obverse design on cream-white paper stock, with no deliberate design elements or inscriptions. |
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Goslar's 1917 Kleingeldscheine were issued in direct response to the wartime hoarding of metal coinage — by mid-1917, small-denomination Reichsmünzen had effectively vanished from daily commerce across most German municipalities, forcing hundreds of local authorities to print their own substitute currency. Goslar was among the earlier adopters in Lower Saxony, issuing notgeld before the practice became near-universal in 1918–1919.
Municipal notgeld of this period was typically printed locally on whatever stock was available, which accounts for the significant variation in paper weight and color saturation seen across surviving examples from this specific issue.