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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Orlamünde (City of Orlamünde, Saxe-Altenburg) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Printer | Schneider & Co., Altenburg, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Orlamünde 10 Pfennig 10 Naschhausen, S.-A. Der Stadtrat zu Orlamünde S.A. Nachahmungen dieses Gutscheines werden strafrechtlich verfolgt. |
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| Reverse lettering | Dieser Gutschein wird an den Kassen der Stadt Orlamünde jederzeit in Zahlung genommen Ausgegeben im Kriegsjahr 1917. 10 Pfennig 10 Nur gültig bis zum 31. Dezember 1919. SCHNEIDER & Co. ALTENBURG, S.A. |
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Orlamünde is a small town in Thuringia whose medieval counts gave their title to the House of Wettin — an outsized dynastic significance for a place that by 1917 had perhaps a few hundred inhabitants. This note is Notgeld in the most literal sense: a wartime stopgap issued because the Reich's small-denomination coinage had vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted as the war ground on. Thousands of German municipalities did the same, and Schneider & Co. in nearby Altenburg handled the printing for several of them.
The "b" variant designation in Grab indicates a paper or color difference from the base type — minor, but worth confirming against the reference before attributing.