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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lauban (City of Lauban), Lower Silesia |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The upper portion carries three panels: the two outer panels bear the text 'Sechs-stadt' and 'Lauban i. Schles.' respectively in bold Gothic blackletter on a fine line-engraved ground with decorative scroll surrounds, while the central panel displays the town's heraldic coat of arms — an eagle above a walled gate with a lion shield — printed in solid black on an oval ground. The lower section, set on a pale pink underprint, presents a four-line advertising text in Gothic script urging citizens to deposit their savings at the Stadtsparkasse Lauban, with the denomination '10 Pfg.' repeated at lower left and right flanking a typeset serial number. |
| Reverse lettering | Sechsstadt | Lauban i. Schles. Bürger und Bauern! Bringt Euer Geld in die Stadtsparkasse Lauban. Wir bieten Euch Zins und Sicherheit und schützen vor Not in schwerer Zeit. 10 Pfg. | 10 Pfg. |
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Lauban — now Lubań in southwestern Poland — was a mid-sized Silesian textile town that, like hundreds of German municipalities, resorted to issuing its own emergency currency during the post-WWI coin shortage. The Reichsbank's inability to keep small-denomination metal coinage in circulation drove civic authorities to authorize local Notgeld series almost as a matter of routine administration by 1920.
Gerth & Oppenrieder of Gera were a competent regional commercial printer, not one of the prestige houses; their Notgeld work tends toward the functional end of the spectrum. At 59 × 43 mm, this is among the smaller pieces in common municipal circulation issues.