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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Trier (City of Trier) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress Notgeld note with a rectangular border incorporating oak-leaf and heraldic ornamental side panels, each bearing the Trier civic eagle. The central field carries the bold legend NOTGELD DER STADT TRIER flanking the city's coat of arms vignette, with denomination numeral 10 in blocked cartouches at upper left and right. A lower text panel contains the liability clause and the issue date TRIER, den 1. JUNI 1920, accompanied by the facsimile signature of the Oberbürgermeister. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse printed in warm brown on cream paper, with an ornamental border composed of grapevine, grape-cluster, and floral rosette vignettes arranged in panels — a reference to the Moselle wine region — with the numeral 10 in circular cartouches at each corner. Flanking side panels carry two small heraldic shields. The central field presents a two-stanza patriotic German verse in roman type beneath the header NOTGELD DER STADT TRIER, with the denomination 10 Pfennige stated at upper left and right. The printer's imprint SCHAAR & DATHE, TRIER appears at lower left. |
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Trier's 1920 Pfennig notgeld was a direct consequence of the postwar coin shortage that hit Rhineland municipalities particularly hard — French occupation forces under the Rhineland Commission controlled the region from 1919, and the disruption to normal Reichsbank currency distribution left smaller denominations almost entirely absent from daily commerce. Local authorities across the occupied zone resorted to their own emergency paper, printed by whatever press was available.
Schaar & Dathe, a local Trier firm, handled this issue — one of the few notgeld series printed and payable within the same occupied city by the same administration.