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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Cöln (City of Cologne) |
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| Year | 1917-1920 |
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| Size | 87 × 47 mm |
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| Obverse description | Blue-green letterpress note with a guilloche-patterned border framing the entire face. The denomination '10 PFENNIG' is printed in large bold type across the centre, above a central vignette of the Cologne city coat of arms rendered as a circular underprint. The text 'Gutschein über' appears at the top below the header 'STADTCÖLN 1917', with a red stamped municipal seal at lower left, a manuscript signature of the Oberbürgermeister at lower right, and the issue date 'den 1. Juni 1918' printed above it. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADTCÖLN 1917 Gutschein über 10 PFENNIG Dieser Gutschein wird von allen städtischen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in den Cölner Ortsblättern. Die Stadtgemeinde Cöln haftet für die Einlösung. Cöln den 1. Juni 1918 Der Oberbürgermeister: |
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Cologne's municipal Notgeld program was one of the largest among German cities during the First World War, driven by a severe shortage of small-denomination coins after silver and then base metals were redirected to the war economy. M. Dumont Schauberg — primarily a newspaper and publishing house, still operating today as one of Germany's oldest media companies — handled much of the city's emergency printing work, a common wartime arrangement where civilian printers absorbed government contracts by necessity rather than specialization.
The 1917–1920 date range spans both wartime scarcity and the immediate postwar occupation period, when Cologne fell under British administration — an unusual circumstance for a German municipal note to remain in active local use.