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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Stendal (City Treasury of Stendal) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | The left portion carries a two-colour vignette in olive-green and mauve of a Gothic church with twin spires — identified as the Dom St. Nikolaus of Stendal — rendered against a stylised cloudy sky. The right half is overlaid with a light green guilloche underprint, upon which the denomination 'Zehn' appears in large decorative Fraktur script in mauve, with 'Pfennige' and 'Stadtkassenschein' printed below in black Fraktur lettering. A circular medallion at lower centre bears the numeral '10', with the issuing authority text 'Stendal den 9. Novemb. 1920 / Der Magistrat' and two facsimile manuscript signatures positioned beneath. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green and mauve on a fine scale-pattern guilloche underprint, the reverse presents a central vertical vignette in mauve of the Stendal Roland — the medieval knight statue — shown full-length, holding a lance and shield within an ornamental frame. The numeral '10' in large mauve figures flanks the central vignette on both sides, each accompanied by the word 'Pfennige' in green Fraktur script. Two small Fraktur text panels at lower left and lower right contain the acceptance and validity clauses. |
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Stendal's city treasury issued this Kleingeldschein — small-change note — in 1920 as part of the broader German municipal emergency money wave triggered by the chronic coin shortage that had plagued the country since the war years. The metal scarcity that began in 1914 never truly resolved; by 1920, municipal and commercial issuers across Germany were still plugging the gap with paper fractions.
Stendal, a mid-sized Hanseatic town in the Altmark, was one of hundreds of small issuers whose notes circulated purely within local retail. These low-denomination Notgeld pieces were typically redeemed and destroyed within months, which accounts for the relative difficulty in finding undamaged survivors at this value.