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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Elze (City of Elze) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Elze über Zehn Pfennig. Gültig bis zum 15. Oktober 1919. Dieser Gutschein wird von unserer Kämmereitkasse und Stadtsparkasse eingelöst. Elze (Hannover), im Juni 1917. Der Magistrat. Die Bürgervorsteher. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain cream-white paper surface with only the faint show-through of the obverse design visible in offset. A very faint decorative border can be discerned at the perimeter, consistent with the letterpress impression from the face. |
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Elze is a small town in Lower Saxony, and like hundreds of similarly modest German municipalities in 1917, it was forced into issuing its own emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — because the wartime metal shortage had driven copper and nickel coins out of circulation almost entirely. The Reichsbank offered no practical solution at the local level, so towns simply printed their own.
The DeNG reference places this squarely in the first wave of municipal Notgeld before the later, more deliberately collectible issues flooded the market from 1920 onward. This is functional wartime paper, not a souvenir.