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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Schleiz (City of Schleiz) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | Orange-ground reverse divided into three vertical panels, each framed by a repeating oval-motif border. The central panel carries a finely engraved vignette of the 'Alte Münze' (Old Mint), a historic tower building in Schleiz rendered in black line work, with the caption 'Die alte Münze' beneath. The left panel bears the Fraktur inscription 'Einst prägte man wertvolle Münzen hier.' and the right panel reads 'Jetzt druckt man die Münze auf wertlos Papier.', both reflecting the ironic commentary on wartime currency substitution; the denomination numeral '10' appears in bold at the lower left and lower right corners. |
| Reverse lettering | Einst prägte man wertvolle Münzen hier. Jetzt druckt man die Münze auf wertlos Papier. Die alte Münze 10 10 |
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Schleiz was a minor administrative seat in the Thuringian principality of Reuss-jüngere Linie — one of the smallest sovereign states in pre-unification Germany, absorbed into Thuringia only in 1920. This note belongs to the vast wave of municipal Kleingeldscheine issued across Germany from 1917 onward as fractional coinage disappeared from circulation, hoarded by a public that trusted metal over paper. By 1919, with the imperial monetary system in collapse and the new Weimar republic not yet stabilizing supply chains, towns like Schleiz were essentially printing their own petty cash.
Local production at this denomination is typical of the series — inexpensive lithography, thin paper stock prone to splitting at folds.