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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Cologne (Stadtgemeinde Köln) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | "Koellen eyn Kroin- Gutschein über 10 PFENNIG Dieser Gutschein wird von allen städtischen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in den Kölner Ortsblättern. Die Stadtgemeinde Köln haftet für die Einlösung. Käln, den 1. Oktober 1920. Der Oberbürgermeister: Boven allen steden schoin" |
| Reverse description | Printed in blue on a dense typographic underprint of the repeated text "STADT KÖLN" across the entire field, the reverse is centred on a circular vignette with a finely engraved view of Cologne City Hall (Rathaus) with its Gothic tower and Renaissance loggia, set within a plain ruled oval frame. The denomination numeral "10" appears in large open white figures against guilloche rosette surrounds to the left and right of the central vignette, with wavy-line guilloche patterns filling the remaining field. |
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Cologne's municipal administration turned to M. Dumont Schauberg — the city's own established newspaper and publishing house — to produce this Notgeld issue during the acute small-change famine of 1920. Using a local commercial printer rather than a specialist banknote firm was entirely pragmatic: coin metal was being hoarded or melted, the Reichsbank couldn't plug the gap fast enough, and municipalities across Germany were improvising with whatever reputable press was at hand.
Dumont Schauberg had been printing in Cologne since the eighteenth century. Competent work, but not security printing.