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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Neckargemünd |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Neckargemünd Gutschein über Zehn Pfennig Neckargemünd, den 1. Oktober 1917 Der Gemeinderat: Kirchmayer Bürgermeister. 10 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on plain cream paper and presents a bold central guilloche composition: a large scallop-edged medallion with radiating lathe-work surrounds a horizontal panel bearing the word "Pfennig" in Gothic script, flanked on each side by a circular cartouche enclosing the numeral "10." Small ornamental rosettes are positioned above and below the central design, with the remainder of the field left unprinted. |
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Neckargemünd, a small town on the Neckar river in Baden, issued this Notgeld note in 1917 as wartime metal shortages forced municipalities across Germany to produce their own small-denomination emergency currency. The Reichsbank had effectively abandoned low-value coinage to the metal drives, leaving towns to fill the gap themselves.
Municipal Notgeld of this period was typically printed in short runs by local printers and authorized only for redemption within the issuing community — giving these notes a circulation radius sometimes measured in city blocks.