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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Erfurt (City of Erfurt) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#344.6-1/3 |
| Obverse description | The obverse is executed in an Expressionist woodcut style in pink, yellow, grey, and dark brown. Two vignettes of Erfurt street scenes with half-timbered houses flank a central panel bearing the large denomination numeral '10' above the word 'Pfennig' in bold Gothic lettering, with a text block below stating the conditions of acceptance. The inscription 'Notgeld der Stadt Erfurt' runs across the top, while the date 'Erfurt, den 9. April 1920' and the serial number appear along the lower margin above the printer's imprint 'Otto Richters u. Co. Erfurt'. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 Pfennig 10 Pfennig Erfurter Notgeld. Alt Erfurt Am Dämmchen. Alfred Hanf. |
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Erfurt's 1920 Kleingeldscheine series emerged from the acute small-denomination coin shortage that gripped German municipalities in the years immediately following the First World War. The Reichsbank's inability to supply adequate subsidiary coinage forced hundreds of German cities to issue their own emergency paper — Erfurt among them. Otto Richters & Co. was a local commercial printer, not a specialist in banknote security production, which is exactly what you'd expect from municipal notgeld of this period: functional, locally sourced, and printed in quantity.
Alfred Hanf's design credit is worth noting — named designers on notgeld of this denomination are not especially common, suggesting the city took some care with the commission rather than simply pulling a stock layout.