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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Zeulenroda |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted notgeld note with an elaborate acanthus-scroll border framing a central oval cartouche. At the top centre, the municipal coat of arms of Zeulenroda is printed in colour, showing a lion's head above a crenellated wall in a heraldic shield surmounted by a battlement crest. The denomination numeral '10' appears at lower left and lower right within the cartouche, while the inscription 'Zeulenroda, den 1. Jan. 1920' and the issuing authority text are printed centrally, accompanied by a facsimile signature above the title 'Oberbürgermeister'. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein Zeulenroda 10 Zehn Pfennig |
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Zeulenroda was a small textile-manufacturing town in Thuringia, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage. Postwar hoarding and the cost of raw materials had stripped low-denomination coin from everyday commerce far more thoroughly than most histories acknowledge.
The DeNG reference places this within a locally catalogued series, suggesting multiple types were issued by the same Stadtgemeinde. At 50 × 37 mm, the format is characteristic of the smallest-denomination municipal issues, printed cheaply and intended for rapid turnover rather than longevity.