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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Emmendingen |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in green on white paper, the obverse carries an intricate guilloche underprint composed of interlaced wave and rope-pattern borders with ornamental corner cartouches bearing the numeral 10. A central vignette shows the Baden diagonal-stripe coat of arms within a lightly printed circular underprint. The text of the obligation is set in a combination of Gothic blackletter and Fraktur typefaces, with the denomination 'Zehn Pfennig' rendered in a large, bold Fraktur script across the centre, above the issue date and the facsimile signatures of the Bürgermeister and Ratschreiber. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green on white paper and centres on a large circular municipal seal of Emmendingen bearing the Baden diagonal-stripe shield flanked by a standing armoured figure, surmounted by a mural crown with towers, and the date 1590 at the base. The seal is encircled by the legend 'STADTGEMEINDE EMMENDINGEN' and is set against a fine guilloche wave-pattern background. The four corners each carry ornamental cartouches with the numeral 10 linked by interlaced rope-pattern borders. |
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Emmendingen's municipal treasury issued this note in 1917 as small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation — hoarded by the public and consumed by wartime metal demands. These municipal Kleingeldscheine were a local fix to a national problem, authorized under emergency provisions that effectively handed issuing authority to any town willing to take the administrative burden.
Emmendingen was a small Baden town with no printing infrastructure of consequence, so production was almost certainly handled by a local job printer. Survival rates for notes this small are poor — the physical format made them easy to lose and easy to discard once the acute shortage passed.