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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Weida (City of Weida, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and black Notgeld note with a fine guilloche underprint throughout. To the left, a bold letterpress vignette of Osterburg castle rising above wooded terrain, rendered in black with expressive contrast. To the right, the denomination '10 Pfennig' appears in large Gothic blackletter type above the text 'Gutschein der Stadt Weida' and a redemption clause, below which the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister is printed; the series letter 'Q' appears in the upper right. The four borders carry local folk proverbs in Gothic script. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Weida 10 Pfennig 10 Pfennig Der Zeitpunkt, mit dem die Gültigkeit dieser Scheine abläuft, wird öffentlich bekanntgegeben |
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Weida's 1918 Kleingeldscheine were part of the massive wave of municipal emergency money that flooded Germany as the imperial coin supply collapsed under wartime metal requisitions. By mid-1918, the Reichsbank had effectively abandoned the task of supplying small-denomination coinage to provincial towns, leaving individual Gemeinden and Städte to paper over the gap themselves — often with whatever local printer could turn around an order quickly.
A print run of just over a million for a small Thuringian market town is notably high, suggesting these circulated well beyond Weida itself, absorbed into regional trade as surrounding communities ran short of their own issues.