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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Bad Sulza |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown on a pale buff ground, with a double-rule border framing the entire design. A vertical panel at left carries the large numeral '10' above the word 'Pfennig', surmounted by the circular municipal seal of Stadtgemeinde Bad Sulza bearing the town arms. The right-hand field displays the issuer's title 'Stadtgemeinde Bad Sulza' at top in Gothic blackletter, with the denomination '10 Zehn Pfennig 10' in large display type below, followed by the obligation text, date 'Bad Sulza, am 25. Februar 1920', and the authority lines 'Der Gemeindevorstand. Der Gemeinderat.' above two manuscript facsimile signatures; a faint circular red control stamp is visible in the centre field. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Bad Sulza. 10 Zehn Pfennig 10 zahlt die Stadtkasse zu Bad Sulza an den Einlteferer dieses Geldscheines. Bad Sulza, am 25. Februar 1920. Der Gemeindevorstand. Der Gemeinderat. Gültig bis 2 Jahre nach Friedensschluß |
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Bad Sulza was a small spa town in Thuringia whose saline springs had given it modest prosperity, but the postwar coin shortage of 1920 forced hundreds of German municipalities to issue their own emergency money — Notgeld — to keep local commerce moving. The Stadtgemeinde's issue from Otto Henning A.G. in Greiz is unremarkable as a printing job; Henning was a regional commercial printer that produced Notgeld for numerous small Thuringian issuers during the same period, which makes attribution straightforward but also means this note carries no particular distinction in print quality or design ambition.
The 10 Pfennig denomination sits at the lowest practical end of the Notgeld range, intended for everyday small transactions that copper coinage could no longer facilitate.