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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Detmold |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black and red on buff paper, with a rectangular outer border enclosing dense black foliate scroll panels on the left and right flanks. The central field carries the heraldic shield of Detmold — a white castle with two flanking towers and two small crosses on a red field, with a large red rose-window motif centred on the keep — rendered in red and black. The denomination numeral '10' appears in each corner, and the legends 'Stadt' and 'Detmold' in large red Gothic script are placed above and below the arms respectively, each flanked by red floral rosettes. |
| Reverse lettering | Stadt Detmold 10 10 10 10 |
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Detmold's municipal small-change notes of 1920 belong to the sprawling Kleingeldscheine phenomenon — the practical response to a severe coin shortage that had been building since the war years, when metal coinage largely vanished from circulation. Hundreds of German towns issued their own low-denomination paper in this period, and most carried no pretense of long life; they were stopgap instruments, printed cheaply and redeemed as quickly as circumstances allowed.
The Magistrat der Stadt Detmold — seat of the Free State of Lippe — issued within a region that retained a distinct administrative identity even after 1918. Small but not trivial.