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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Halberstadt (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress notgeld on cream paper with an intricate geometric guilloche border incorporating repeated numeral '10' motifs and ornamental corner devices. The denomination 'Zehn Pfennig' is rendered in bold blackletter script at centre, surmounted by the town name 'HALBERSTADT a/H.' in a top panel and a serial number box at upper right. A two-line text block at lower left states the redemption conditions at the municipal treasury, with the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat:' and two manuscript facsimile signatures to the right; the date 'Halberstadt d. 10. Februar 1920' appears above. The foot of the note carries the legend 'GUTSCHEIN FÜR 10 PF.' within a ruled panel. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green on cream paper and centres on a large heraldic shield vignette showing an armoured knight in relief — the traditional arms of Halberstadt — flanked by two pen-and-ink architectural vignettes: the Romanesque cathedral (Dom) to the left and a Renaissance half-timbered civic building to the right, all set against a background of stylised foliate ornament. The denomination is stated in bold blackletter numerals '10' at lower left and right with 'Pfennig' in matching script between them. The printer's imprint 'Louis Koch, Halberstadt.' appears in small roman type at the foot of the note. |
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Halberstadt's municipal authority issued this note under the same emergency provisions that flooded Germany with Kleingeldersatz scrip in 1919–1920, when coin shortages made low-denomination change functionally impossible to obtain. The Magistrat turned to Louis Koch — a local printer rather than a specialist security firm — which was entirely typical of smaller Saxony-Anhalt towns that lacked the connections or budget to engage Leipzig or Berlin houses.
Koch printed for several Halberstadt issues across this period. The town's Notgeld program was relatively modest in scope compared to neighboring Quedlinburg, which ran an aggressive collector-targeted series.