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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Mylau (City of Mylau) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | Green and brown bicolour reverse printed in letterpress, divided into two horizontal registers. The upper register on a white ground carries the denomination title 'Zehn Pfennig' in large Gothic blackletter, below which a validity clause is set in roman type. The lower register is filled with a dense green arabesque guilloche pattern bearing large brown denomination numerals '10' at left and right corners; a serial number in black is printed at the foot centre below the guilloche panel, and a circular cancellation stamp is visible at centre. |
| Reverse lettering | Zehn Pfennig Gültig nur im Stadtbezirke Mylau i/v und nur bis 31. Dezember 1919 No |
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Mylau is a small textile-manufacturing town in the Vogtland district of Saxony, and this 1919 Notgeld issue belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany after the First World War. The Reichsbank's coin shortage — driven by wartime metal requisitions and postwar hoarding — forced thousands of towns, down to the most obscure, to print their own small-denomination paper substitutes. Mylau was no exception.
At 55 × 40 mm, this is among the smallest format Notgeld pieces produced, intended purely for everyday low-value transactions and never meant to outlast the immediate shortage.