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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss Luckau (District Committee of Luckau) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Tan and brown notgeld note with a fine guilloche underprint overall. At the centre-top, a polychrome vignette in yellow and green shows a deer within a wreath flanked by decorative foliate scrollwork. Below, a large red cartouche in Fraktur script carries the denomination and issuing text, with two handwritten signatures at the foot of the cartouche. The denomination numeral '10' appears in bold black at upper left and upper right corners, while the series designation 'REIHE KKK.' and serial number appear in blue at the lower left and lower right respectively. The printer's imprint 'JOHANNES PÄSSLER. DRESDEN-N.' is printed in small type at the very bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Red and grey reverse with a bold decorative border of scrolling arabesques in grey against a red ground, carrying the numeral '10' repeated vertically along both side borders. A central shield-shaped cartouche on a grey guilloche ground bears the issuer name and redemption text in Fraktur letterpress. Two-colour printing in red and black throughout. |
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Luckau's 1917 10 Pfennig emergency note belongs to the vast wave of Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitutes — that flooded Germany after coin metal was diverted to war production. By mid-1917 the imperial government had effectively abandoned responsibility for fractional currency, leaving district committees, municipalities, and even private businesses to fill the gap themselves. Pässler's Dresden-Neustadt shop was a minor regional printer, not one of the major security printers, which is exactly the kind of operation these Notgeld contracts went to — small run, fast turnaround, no engraving.
Luckau district issued across multiple denominations; the 10 Pfennig is among the more commonly surviving values from this series.