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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Sommerfeld (City of Sommerfeld) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on a pink guilloche underprint, the obverse is set within an ornate letterpress border with decorative scrollwork at the corners and denomination numeral '10' repeated at each side. At the top centre, the municipal coat of arms of Sommerfeld is enclosed in a shield flanked by the inscriptions 'Stadt-' and 'Geld'. The denomination 'Zehn Pfennig' is rendered in large Gothic (Fraktur) script across the centre, below which the guarantee text, issue date of 1 April 1920, and two facsimile signatures of the Magistrat appear; a redemption notice in small Fraktur text occupies a ruled box at the foot, with the printer's imprint 'Adolf Forker, Leipzig' beneath. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt-Geld Zehn Pfennig Verbürgt durch die Stadtgemeinde Sommerfeld, 1. April 1920 Der Magistrat: Dieses Stadtgeld wird ungültig, wenn es nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung des Magistrats bei der Stadtkasse Sommerfeld eingelöst wird. ADOLF FORKER, LEIPZIG |
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Sommerfeld — today Lubsko in southwestern Poland — issued this note during the Kleingeldnot of 1919–1922, the small-change famine that drove hundreds of German municipalities to print their own emergency pfennig notes. Forker in Leipzig was a reliable workhorse printer for this market, producing municipal Notgeld for towns across Saxony and Silesia at volume.
The city sat in the Niederlausitz, close enough to the Silesian industrial belt to feel the monetary disruption acutely. Most Sommerfeld Notgeld was redeemed and pulped once Reichsbank coinage returned to circulation, which keeps surviving examples genuinely uncommon rather than merely unfashionable.