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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Liegnitz (City of Liegnitz, Lower Silesia) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | Green intaglio-style vignette on cream paper stock, with a scenic view of the Warmwasserteich (warm-water pond) in Liegnitz, showing a pavilion or bathhouse structure surrounded by trees reflected in the pond, with stepping stones in the foreground. The series designation Serie II. appears in the upper left, and the caption Am Warmwasserteich. is placed in the upper right. The denomination 10 Pfennige is printed in bold along the lower margin, and a vertical serial number appears along the right edge. A validity notice in vertical letterpress text along the left border reads: Die Scheine verlieren ihre Gültigkeit mit Ablauf der im Aufruf bestimmten Frist. |
| Reverse lettering | Serie II. Am Warmwasserteich. 10 Pfennige Die Scheine verlieren ihre Gültigkeit mit Ablauf der im Aufruf bestimmten Frist. |
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Liegnitz was one of the more prolific Notgeld issuers in Lower Silesia, and having its own geographic printing house — Paul Baron's Institut — handle production locally was common for the region's municipal emergency currency in 1920. The hyperinflationary spiral had not yet peaked, but coin hoarding was already severe enough that towns of Liegnitz's size needed fractional paper to keep daily commerce moving.
Printed in-house by a firm whose primary business was maps and geographic materials, not banknote security printing. The technical limitations that implies are worth keeping in mind when assessing print registration on any example.