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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bochum (City of Bochum) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Green-toned notgeld on plain paper with an ornate guilloche border framing the entire face. The denomination '10 Pfennig' is printed in large bold Gothic script at centre, flanked by the numeral '10' in the lower-right corner and a small circular municipal arms vignette to the lower left. The full payment obligation text of the Stadthauptkasse Bochum, dated 12 December 1917, is set in letterpress above and below the denomination line, with a manuscript signature of the Magistrat applied across the lower portion. |
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| Reverse lettering | Stadt Bochum Gültig nur für den Stadtbezirk Bochum bis zum 31. Dezember 1918 (Translation: City of Bochum Valid only for the Bochum city district until 31 December 1918) |
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Bochum's 1917 Notgeld issues emerged directly from the Reichsbank's wartime metal requisitions, which drained copper and nickel coinage from circulation so thoroughly that hundreds of German municipalities were forced to print their own small-denomination emergency paper. Bochum, as a major Ruhr industrial center supplying steel and coal to the war effort, was among the earlier cities to issue such notes — necessity, not bureaucratic initiative.
City-printed Notgeld of this period was explicitly temporary and not legal tender beyond the issuing municipality's boundaries, a restriction many local businesses quietly ignored.