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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Reichenbach im Vogtland |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Reference(s) | Gra#:R20.3b, Va#5985.05.11 |
| Obverse description | Olive-green and black Notgeld gutschein printed on a fine guilloche underprint ground. The issuer's name "Stadtgemeinde Reichenbach i.V." runs across the top border in Gothic script, while the central field carries the denomination inscription "Gutschein über Zehn Pfennig" in bold Fraktur lettering flanking a large ornamental numeral "10" with spiral guilloche fill. To the lower left, a circular embossed dry seal bearing the city arms is applied, and to the right the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister appears beneath his title; the validity clause "Gültig nur im Stadtbezirke Reichenbach i.V." runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Protection description | Circular embossed dry seal of the Stadtgemeinde Reichenbach i.V. applied to the obverse lower left, bearing the city arms impression. |
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Reichenbach im Vogtland was a textile manufacturing town in Saxony, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1919, it issued its own emergency small change — Kleingeldscheine — to fill the vacuum left by hoarded coinage. The national coin shortage had been building since 1914, and by 1919 the situation was acute enough that even mid-sized industrial towns were printing their own fractional notes rather than wait for central supply.
The dry seal is the distinguishing authentication feature for this type; without it, the note falls outside the accepted genuine series per Grabowski's reference classification R20.3b.