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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Hanau (City of Hanau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in dark navy blue on a cream ground, the reverse presents a central oval vignette of the Gebrüder-Grimm-Denkmal (Brothers Grimm Monument) of Hanau, with the two seated figures rendered in fine letterpress detail and the pedestal inscribed 'Gebrüder Grimm-Denkmal'. The curved legend 'Notgeld der Stadt Hanau' surmounts the oval, which is flanked by four corner vignettes of civic heraldic emblems. The denomination 'Zehn Pfennig' in Gothic script runs along the lower arc of the oval border. |
| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Hanau Zehn Pfennig Gebrüder Grimm-Denkmal |
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Hanau's municipal notgeld program of 1920 belongs to the second wave of German emergency money — issued not from genuine small-coin scarcity (the original crisis of 1914–1918) but largely to satisfy collector demand, which by 1920 had become a revenue stream in its own right for cash-strapped German towns. The city was fully aware that many of these notes would never circulate, printed in quantities calibrated to philatelic buyers rather than marketplace need.
The H11.4 series shows minor paper and ink variants across the "a" through "c" subtype range — differences consistent with small print-run reprints rather than a single unified issue.