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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Saarlouis (City of Saarlouis) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Rose-pink guilloche underprint covers the entire note, with a central circular vignette in a lighter tone. The issuer name "Stadt Saarlouis" is set in large decorative blackletter script at the top, followed by the denomination text "Gutschein über zehn Pfennig" in matching Gothic lettering. Below, the place and date of issue "Saarlouis, im Oktober 1919" appear above the mayoral title "Der Bürgermeister" with a manuscript signature, and a validity clause in small roman type runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Zehn Pfennig 10 DISSIPAT ATQUE FOVET Nachahmungen werden strafrechtlich verfolgt Saarlouiser Journal A.G. |
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Saarlouis in 1919 was days away from political limbo — the Versailles Treaty would place the Saar region under League of Nations administration beginning in 1920, severing it administratively from Germany for fifteen years. This Notgeld issue predates that transition, making it one of the last acts of the city as an unambiguous German municipal authority.
Printed by the local newspaper publisher Saarlouiser Journal A.G., which took on small emergency currency contracts as commercial work dried up post-armistice.