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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Nimptsch (Silesia) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Nimptsch über Zehn Pfennig Nimptsch, den 29. Oktober 1919. Der Magistrat: Einlösung seitens der Stadt Nimptsch bis zum 31. Dezember 1920 gewährleistet. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on the same orange guilloche ground with an intricate repeating geometric lattice pattern covering the entire surface. At center, a large oval guilloche frame encloses the municipal coat of arms of Nimptsch — an eagle above a tower — rendered as a pale watermark-style vignette. A black serial number prefixed 'No' is printed in the upper margin. |
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Nimptsch — today Niemcza, Poland — was a small Silesian market town that, like hundreds of German municipalities in 1919, was forced into issuing its own emergency coinage substitutes when metal shortages and hoarding made coins effectively disappear from circulation. This Kleingeldschein was part of a broader Notgeld wave that produced thousands of local issues across the collapsed German economy in the immediate aftermath of the First World War.
Gebrüder Parcus in Munich was one of the more prolific commercial printers serving municipal Notgeld contracts, producing notes for communities well outside Bavaria. The Nimptsch issue is among the more modest examples of their output.