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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Schalkau (City of Schalkau) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Uniform tan note with an all-over guilloche underprint of interlocking diamond and cross motifs forming the background. A shield-shaped coat of arms of Schalkau is centrally placed, divided into two quarters showing a rampant lion above and crossed tools with a floral device below. Surrounding the arms, a two-part aphoristic motto is set in spaced Gothic lettering across the field, with a decorative floral rosette at each lower corner. |
| Reverse lettering | In Schalkau wird nicht vor den Wanden versprochen. Es wird auch gehalten. |
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Schalkau is a small town in the Sonneberg district of Thuringia, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities across Germany in 1918, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — to compensate for the acute shortage of small-denomination coins caused by wartime metal requisitioning. The Reichsbank had effectively stopped supplying fractional coinage, leaving towns to fend for themselves.
First-wave 1918 municipal Notgeld of this type was purely functional, printed locally with minimal artistic ambition. The elaborate collector-oriented series came later, mostly in 1921–1922.