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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Gollnow (City of Gollnow), Der Magistrat |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 30 June 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue-grey letterpress on cream paper with a fine guilloche underprint. The issuer's name 'STADT GOLLNOW' appears in bold white letters on a dark banner across the top. The denomination numeral '10' is set within an ornate circular vignette at left, accompanied by the value legend in Gothic Fraktur script reading 'Zehn Pfennige'. The issue date 'GOLLNOW, den 1. APRIL 1920.' is printed centrally below, with the authority inscription 'Der Magistrat.' flanked by two facsimile manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in violet-grey on cream paper with a wavy-line guilloche underprint. The central vignette comprises two overlapping historical seals of Gollnow — the larger bearing the Latin legend 'SIGILLUM CIVITATIS GOLLNOW MAGNUM' with a ship device, and the smaller reading 'MAGISTRAT ZU GOLLNOW' — set against a crossed-cornucopia and laurel-branch arrangement. The denomination numeral '10' appears in each upper corner. Below the vignette, the serial prefix letter and number are printed in red, followed by the redemption clause in black and the printer's imprint 'KREY U. SOMMERLAD · NIEDERSEDLITZ · DRESDEN' along the bottom margin. |
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Gollnow — now Goleniów in northwestern Poland — was a small Pomeranian town issuing its own fractional emergency currency in 1920, a common municipal response to the catastrophic coin shortage that gripped Germany during the early Weimar period. The Reichsbank had effectively stopped supplying small denomination coinage, forcing thousands of cities, towns, and even private firms to print their own Notgeld to keep retail trade moving.
Krey und Sommerlad in Niedersedlitz handled enormous volumes of this municipal work across Saxony and beyond, functioning as a production clearinghouse for local authorities that lacked any printing infrastructure of their own.