10 Pfennig

Sankt Wendel's 10 Pfennig notgeld of 1919 is a product of the postwar emergency currency wave that swept German municipalities after the Reich's coinage supply collapsed under wartime metal requisitions and postwar economic disruption. Gebrüder Parcus of Munich was one of the more prolific notgeld printers of the period, handling municipal commissions from across Bavaria and beyond — their output was reliable but rarely distinguished.

Sankt Wendel itself had particular reason to issue scrip in 1919: the Saar territory, of which the town was part, was placed under League of Nations administration that year following the Treaty of Versailles. The town's civic currency briefly outlasted its issuing authority's direct control over its own affairs.