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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Görlitz (Lower Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue-black letterpress on a fine guilloche underprint incorporating repeated text 'AGORLITZ', 'STADT', and '1918' across the entire field. The upper left corner bears the municipal coat of arms of Görlitz, while the upper right corner contains a vignette of a fortified tower. Elaborate acanthus scroll corner ornaments frame the central text block, with the denomination '10 PFENNIG' in large bold type, the redemption conditions in smaller script below, the issue date 'Görlitz, den 1. April 1919', and facsimile signatures of the Magistrat and Handelskammer, with a red serial number in the lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark brown on plain paper, the reverse centres on a detailed intaglio-style vignette of the Rathaustreppe — the ornate Renaissance staircase of the Görlitz Town Hall — rendered with fine architectural precision and cobblestone forecourt. Numerals '10' appear in bold type within decorative cartouches at the left and right, each flanked by elaborate acanthus and floral scroll ornaments. The caption 'RATHAUSTREPPE' is set in letterpress below the central vignette, with the printer's imprint 'Carl Schleicher & Schüll Düren' at the foot. |
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Görlitz issued this 10 Pfennig note in 1919 as part of the vast wave of municipal Kleingeldscheine that flooded Germany during the postwar coin shortage. The German Imperial mint had been unable to keep small-denomination coinage in circulation — wartime metal requisitions and hoarding had stripped it out almost entirely — leaving cities and towns to fill the gap themselves. Carl Schleicher & Schüll in Düren were among the busiest commercial printers servicing these municipal contracts, producing emergency notes for dozens of municipalities simultaneously.
Görlitz, then an industrial and trading center on the Neisse, was issuing these notes while simultaneously navigating the political chaos of the early Weimar transition.