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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Apolda (City of Apolda, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Blue-toned notgeld on cream paper with an ornate guilloche underprint forming a central vignette of interlaced floral and foliate scrollwork. The denomination numeral '10' appears in large bold Gothic type at upper left and upper right, with the value inscription 'Zehn Pfennig' in large Fraktur script across the centre. Below, a three-line text affirms payment by the Stadtkasse in Apolda, followed by the issue date 'Apolda, den 15. März 1917' and the authority line 'Der Gemeindevorstand Der Gemeinderat'; two manuscript signatures appear at foot. A vertically printed red serial number is visible along the right margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 Zehn Pfennig Dieser Schein verfällt 3 Monate nach öffentlicher Aufforderung des Gemeinde- vorstands zur Einlösung. Nachahmungen sind strafbar. |
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Apolda's 1917 Notgeld issue came out of the same wartime paper shortage that forced hundreds of small German municipalities to print their own emergency fractional currency when Imperial coinage vanished from circulation almost overnight. The Reichsbank could not keep up with demand for small change, and the Stadtkasse — the city treasury, not a bank — stepped in as issuer. That distinction matters: these were municipal obligations backed by local administrative authority rather than any banking reserve.
Apolda was a textile town, known primarily for its hosiery and bell foundries. Nothing exotic here, but local printing meant quality control varied batch to batch, and minor typographic inconsistencies between otherwise identical notes are common in this series.