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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Kolberg |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress emergency currency (Notgeld) printed on cream paper within a decorative zigzag and geometric border frame. The denomination "Zehn Pfennig" is set in large blackletter type at centre, below which the redemption clause names the Stadthauptkasse as payer to the bearer; the city coat of arms — a heraldic shield supported by two figures — appears as a central vignette. The date "Kolberg, den 1. März 1917" is printed centrally beneath the arms, flanked by two manuscript signatures, with the issuing authority "Der Magistrat" inscribed to either side. |
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| Obverse lettering | Zehn Pfennig zahlt die Stadthauptkasse dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines. Kolberg, den 1. März 1917. Der Magistrat |
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Kolberg's municipal authority issued this 10 Pfennig note in 1917 as emergency small change — Kleingeldersatz — a direct response to the hoarding of coins that gutted circulation across Germany as the war dragged into its third year. By that point the Reichsbank had effectively lost control of the fractional currency problem, and thousands of German towns, municipalities, and even private firms printed their own stopgap issues under loosely enforced central guidelines.
C.F. Post'sche Buchdruckerei was a local commercial printer, not a specialist security press. That matters: registration and ink quality on these municipal issues varies considerably even within a single print run.