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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Bad Reichenhall |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld gutschein printed in dark ink on plain paper, with a decorative border of interlocking foliate and geometric ornaments enclosing the central text. The denomination numeral '10' appears in large Gothic script at lower left and right corners, flanking the central inscription 'Zehn Pfennig' in bold blackletter type. Below the issuer's heading 'Kurort Bad Reichenhall' at top, the text 'Der Stadtrat' appears with a manuscript signature, and a two-line patriotic verse is printed in a small cartouche at the lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse with a large lightly impressed underprint vignette — likely a civic or heraldic motif — visible in the centre, rendered in a pale ghosted tone against the buff paper ground. A serial number is typeset in bold upright numerals at the lower centre beneath the vignette. |
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Bad Reichenhall issued a run of small-denomination Notgeld in 1920, as hundreds of German municipalities did during the coin shortage that followed the war. The Stadtrat — the town council, not a bank — was legally permitted to authorize these emergency issues under the conditions of the time, which is why the issuing authority reads as an administrative body rather than a financial one.
Bad Reichenhall's issues are generally unspectacular within the broader Notgeld collecting field, distinguished primarily by their local provenance as a Bavarian spa town rather than by any printing or design rarity.