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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Idstein (City of Idstein) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 80 × 54 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on plain beige paper, the obverse carries the municipal heraldic shield of Idstein — a fortified castle gate with twin towers above a rampant lion — at left, paired with the Nassau coat of arms showing a rampant lion on a barry field at right. The bold denomination numeral '10' and the word 'Pfennig' in blackletter type occupy the centre, flanked by ornamental dots, with the issuing authority legend in Fraktur script running across the top. The overall layout is austere, consistent with utilitarian Notgeld production of the early 1920s. |
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| Reverse lettering | Stadt Idstein im Taunus 10 Pfennig zahlt die Stadtkasse jederzeit für diesen Gutschein in bar aus. Der Magistrat: [Signature] |
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Idstein's 1920 Kleingeldscheine were issued to combat the severe small-denomination coin shortage that gripped Germany's municipal economies in the immediate postwar period. The Reichsbank had neither the metal nor the political bandwidth to restock circulation, and hundreds of German towns — Idstein among them — printed their own fractional emergency notes under loosely supervised federal tolerance. The watermarked paper suggests procurement from a commercial stationer rather than a specialist security printer, which was common for smaller municipalities with limited contracting power.
Tieste Va#3175.05.10 places this squarely within the Hessian Nassau regional classification.