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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Rheingaukreises |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Red-toned notgeld Gutschein printed on a fine guilloche underprint with six circular rosette medallions at the corners and centre sides, each bearing the numeral '10' in bold Gothic blackletter type. The issuer's name 'Rheingaukreis' appears at the top in large blackletter script, beneath a serial number in green, followed by the text 'Gutschein über Zehn Pfennig' in prominent blackletter. A block of small-print text below details the terms of acceptance and validity, dated 'Rüdesheim am Rhein, den 28. November 1919', with the issuing authority line 'DER KREISAUSSCHUSS DES RHEINGAUKREISES' and two manuscript facsimile signatures at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | C. Naumann's Druckerei, Frankfurt a/M. |
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Rheingaukreis was a rural administrative district in Nassau, incorporated into Prussia following the 1866 annexation. This 10 Pfennig Notgeld was issued in 1919 by the district committee — the Kreisausschuss — as small-denomination coin shortages bit hard into everyday transactions during the post-war economic disruption. The metal had long since been swallowed by the war effort, and municipal and district bodies across Germany were left to paper over the gap themselves.
Carl Naumann's Druckerei in Frankfurt had been operating since 1821 and was a workhorse commercial printer for the region — not a specialist security printer, which shows in the modest production values typical of district-level Notgeld from this period.