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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Herrnstadt (Silesia) |
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| Year | 1919-1920 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Orange and grey Notgeld note with a fine stipple guilloche underprint filling the central field, surmounted by a small spread-eagle vignette above the bold denomination numeral '10' and the text 'Zehn Pfennig'. The issuing authority inscription 'Der Magistrat der Stadt Herrnstadt' appears in the lower centre, below which two manuscript signatures and a red serial number are printed. The denomination '10' is repeated in each of the four corners within ornamental oval cartouches, and a decorative geometric border frames the entire note. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 Zehn Pfennig Die Einlösung dieses Scheines muß bis zum 31. Dezember 1919 bei der Stadthauptkasse der Stadt Herrnstadt erfolgt sein, andernfalls der Schein verfällt. Der Magistrat der Stadt Herrnstadt. |
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Herrnstadt was a small Silesian market town — today Góra, in southwestern Poland — and like hundreds of similar municipalities in the immediate postwar period, it issued emergency paper (Notgeld) to compensate for the catastrophic disappearance of small coinage from circulation. The Magistrat had no printing facilities of its own; Carl Flemming A.G. of Glogau (now Głogów) handled the work, a firm better known for cartographic publishing than currency production.
Flemming printed for numerous Silesian municipalities simultaneously during 1919–1920, which kept costs down but meant local issues shared production characteristics across towns. The Herrnstadt series is among the more utilitarian of the regional output — no elaborate artistic commission, no commemorative pretext.