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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Bunzlau |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Blue-grey letterpress Notgeld on cream paper, enclosed within a fine ornamental guilloche border with the numeral '10' repeated at each corner. The denomination 'Zehn Pfennig' is rendered in large blackletter script across the upper portion, below which a central text panel carries the issue date, validity clause, and issuing authority. To the lower left, a vignette of a local town gate or tower is visible, while a stylised flowering plant motif occupies the lower right margin. Two facsimile signatures of the Magistrat appear beneath the text block. |
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| Reverse description | Blue-grey letterpress design on cream paper within a repeating ornamental guilloche border, with the numeral '10' at each corner. Two large oval cartouches, each bearing the numeral '10' above 'Pfg.', flank a central vignette of the Bunzlau civic coat of arms — a crenellated tower above a gate — encircled by a wreath of twisted rope or laurel. Flanking foliate vignettes echo those on the obverse. The inscription 'Stadt Bunzlau' is set in blackletter script beneath the central armorial device. |
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Bunzlau's municipal authority issued this 10 Pfennig Notgeld in 1919 as part of the widespread small-change emergency that followed Germany's defeat — coins had vanished from circulation almost entirely by war's end, hoarded or melted, and towns were effectively left to print their own fractions of the mark. L. Fernbach was a local printer, and the note went no further than the town itself; that hyper-local circulation is why condition varies so sharply across surviving examples.
The city is today Bolesławiec in Lower Silesia, transferred to Poland after 1945. German-issued Notgeld from Bunzlau carries a quiet territorial footnote that most issues from westerly towns do not.