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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Delitzsch (City of Delitzsch) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld (emergency currency) printed in brown and black on plain paper, with the denomination legend rendered in elaborate Fraktur blackletter script dominating the centre. A serial number appears in the upper right corner alongside a decorative asterisk, while a circular dry-stamp impression of the Magistrat Delitzsch is visible at the lower right. The denomination numeral '10' appears in a cartouche at lower left, beneath two manuscript signatures attributed to municipal officials, with the issue legend at the base. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Delitzsch Zehn Pfennig Der Magistrat Ausgegeben im Kriegsjahr 1917. |
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Delitzsch, a small Saxon market town, issued its own emergency currency in 1917 as the German imperial supply of small-denomination coinage collapsed under wartime metal requisitioning. Municipal notgeld of this type was printed in enormous quantities by local printers across Germany during 1917–1921, and Delitzsch's issues are among the more obscure — no notable printing error, no unusual series, nothing to distinguish them from hundreds of similar municipal issues except their local specificity.
Paper notgeld at this denomination was essentially token coinage, accepted on civic trust alone and redeemable only within the issuing municipality's jurisdiction.