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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Mindelheim |
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| Year | 1918-1920 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Tan-toned notgeld gutschein printed in dark brown letterpress on plain paper, with a faint guilloche vignette at centre. The denomination numeral "10" appears in large Gothic blackletter at both upper left and upper right, flanking the central legend "Gutschein über Zehn Pfennig" in ornate blackletter script. Below, the issuing authority "Stadtmagistrat Mindelheim" is printed in Gothic type with a manuscript signature to the right; the date "April 1920" and the cautionary legend "Nachdruck strafbar!" appear along the upper edge. |
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| Obverse lettering | Nachdruck strafbar! April 1920. 10 Gutschein über Zehn Pfennig Stadtmagistrat Mindelheim |
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Mindelheim's municipal magistrate issued this Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany after the First World War. By 1918, hoarding of metal coinage had made fractional currency nearly impossible to find, and thousands of German towns, municipalities, and even individual businesses produced their own paper substitutes. The Stadtmagistrat — the civic administrative body rather than a bank — had direct authority to issue locally, and did so alongside dozens of similar Bavarian towns facing identical shortages.
The 1918–1920 window covers both the war's final year and the turbulent early Weimar period. Many issues from this run were never formally redeemed.