10 Pfennig

Bad Godesberg issued this note as Notgeld — emergency small-change scrip — during the coin shortage that followed Germany's defeat in the First World War. The town, then an independent municipality on the Rhine south of Bonn, handled its own currency needs at the local level precisely because the central government could not reliably supply low-denomination coinage in 1920. M. Dumont Schauberg, the Cologne press that printed it, was a major regional newspaper publisher that took on considerable Notgeld work during this period — printing municipal scrip was a practical sideline for a firm with that kind of press capacity.

Bad Godesberg was incorporated into Bonn in 1969.