Catalog
10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Linz am Rhein (City of Linz am Rhein) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT LINZ 1917 No 038678 Kriegsnotgeld Stadt Linz über 10 Pfg. Der Bürgermeister: |
| Reverse description | Plain salmon-orange reverse with a dense hatched guilloche underprint matching the obverse, bearing no printed inscriptions. The central vignette comprises a large ornate heraldic cartouche rendered in the orange underprint, enclosing the coat of arms of Linz am Rhein — a divided shield with a cross in the upper half and horizontal stripes charged with an anchor in the lower half — surrounded by scrolled foliate ornament. |
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Linz am Rhein is a small town on the eastern bank of the Rhine in the Rhineland, and its 1917 notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency currency that swept German towns during the First World War as small-denomination coins were hoarded or melted. The printer, M. Dumont Schauberg of Cologne, was primarily a newspaper and publishing house — one of Germany's oldest, founded in 1620 — and handled a significant volume of Rhineland notgeld contracts during the war years precisely because commercial printers were more accessible than the overburdened official currency presses.
First-wave 1917 notgeld tends to be plainer than the decorative "collector" issues that flooded the market from 1920 onward, when municipalities printed explicitly for philatelic sale rather than genuine circulation need.