Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Diez (City of Diez) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Rectangular |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown and green on plain paper. A central green vignette presents a panoramic townscape of Diez, rendered in a woodcut-style illustration showing the town's church spire and rooftops against a hatched sky. The denomination '10' appears in bold Gothic blackletter numerals in the upper left and upper right corners, with 'Pf.' below each, while the town name 'DIEZ' is set in large Gothic script across the lower centre, flanked by two text blocks with validity and redemption conditions. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Diez a. d. Lahn Diez, Nov. 1919 Der Magistrat 10 Pfennig Grabmal der Gräfin Walburg von Epstein i. d. Stiftskirche zu Diez a. d. Lahn |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Diez, a small town on the Lahn river in Nassau, issued this note during the acute coin shortage that followed Germany's defeat in 1918. The Kleingeldentwertung — small-change crisis — was severe enough that hundreds of German municipalities printed their own Notgeld to keep local commerce moving, and Diez was among them.
Town-issued 1919 Notgeld of this denomination was typically printed in short runs by local printers with no security features, which makes condition highly variable across surviving examples.