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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Diez (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Diez Dieser Schein verliert die Gültigkeit 3 Monate nach der Aufkündigung in den Diezer Zeitungen. Diez, Dezbr. 1920 Der Magistrat: Jack |
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| Reverse lettering | TENUI PENDENTIA FILO. DIETZ Nassawisch. Cernis ut a tenui filo dependeat Orbis Omniu hic humana citæ sunt prona ruinæ. Dall menschlich ding auf dieser weldt, Das Leben selbst sampt Leut und Geldt, Darnach uns doch so sehr verlangt, An einem dünnen faden hangt. |
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Diez, a small Lahn river town in Nassau, was among hundreds of German municipalities that printed their own emergency paper in 1920 as the national coinage shortage — itself a consequence of wartime metal requisitioning and postwar hoarding — left everyday commerce functionally paralyzed at the lowest denominations. This Magistrat-issued Kleingeldersatz was purely a stopgap, intended to circulate only within the town limits and to be redeemed once federal coinage returned to supply.
Most Diez Notgeld of this period was printed in small runs by local or regional job printers with no particular numismatic ambition. Survival rates are high simply because collectors began systematically acquiring German municipal emergency notes almost as soon as they appeared.