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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Rendsburg (City of Rendsburg) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issued by the City of Rendsburg, printed in dark ink on green-tinted paper with a dashed-rule outer border and guilloche corner squares bearing the denomination '10 PF.' The central text panel carries the bold heading 'GUTSCHEIN' at top and 'ZEHN PFENNIG' below, flanked by two heraldic shield vignettes — the Rendsburg civic arms at left and a crowned coat of arms at right. The lower portion bears the issuance date 'RENDSBURG DEN 1. JULI 1918' above four manuscript signatures with their respective titles: BÜRGERMEISTER, SENATOR, STADTVORST., and STADTVORST. STELLVERTRT. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 PF. KRIEG NOCH TAUSEND JAHR HOFTAS HÖTS DEN MIT GEIST DAR ANN SINN 10 PF. |
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Rendsburg's 1918 Kleingeldscheine — small-change notes — were a direct response to the wartime hoarding of metal coins. By mid-1918, copper and nickel had been redirected to armaments production for years, and municipal authorities across Germany were issuing their own emergency fractions to keep local commerce moving. Rendsburg was one of hundreds of towns that printed low-denomination paper to fill the gap left by vanishing Pfennig coinage.
These municipal issues had no backing guarantee beyond the issuing city's word, and most were redeemed and destroyed within a year or two of issue — which keeps surviving examples genuinely scarce despite the large print runs that many towns ordered.