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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Soltau (City of Soltau) |
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| Year | 1919-1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is set in black letterpress on white paper with a decorative guilloche underprint. The upper portion carries the Gothic-script legend in two registers flanked by ornamental cartouches. At centre, a large vignette of an Iron Cross 1914 wreathed in laurel dominates the field, with the denomination numeral '10' in bold blackletter type to left and right. Three bordered text panels at the foot of the note carry the validity date, the issuing institution, and the place and date of issue, with two manuscript signatures appearing beneath the central panel. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Heidestadt Soltau über 10 Pf. 10 Pfennig Gültig bis Ende des Jahres 1922 Spar- und Darlehns-Verein e.G.m.b.H. Soltau Soltau in Hann. 1. Januar 1921 |
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Soltau's municipal small-change notes were a direct response to the Kleingeldnot — the acute shortage of coins that gripped German towns following World War One. With the Reichsbank unable to supply adequate coinage, hundreds of municipalities issued their own Kleingeldscheine under emergency authority, and Stadt Soltau was among them. Franz Scherrer in Hanover was a regional printer who handled several such commissions across Lower Saxony during this period.
The three-year validity window, 1919–1921, is typical of the first wave of municipal issues before the hyperinflationary spiral of 1922–23 rendered low-denomination Notgeld economically irrelevant almost overnight.