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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Amtshauptmannschaft und Stadt Zittau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Orange and dark brown Notgeld voucher with an ornate foliate scroll border framing the central design. The numeral '10' appears in a large oval cartouche at upper centre, flanked by acanthus-style decorative scrollwork, with the denomination spelled out as 'ZEHN PFENNIG' immediately below. The lower portion carries the validity inscription, issuing authority text in Gothic script, and a handwritten serial number with letter prefix and two manuscript signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN ÜBER 10 ZEHN PFENNIG gültig bis 31.Dez. 1920 im Bezirke der Amtshauptmannschaft u. der Stadt Zittau |
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Zittau's Amtshauptmannschaft — the rural district authority surrounding the city — co-issued this note jointly with the municipality itself, an arrangement that reflected the acute shortage of small change plaguing Saxony in the early Weimar period. The 1920 Kleingeldscheine wave was driven less by hyperinflation, which had not yet peaked, than by a simple breakdown in coin supply as metals remained scarce following wartime requisitioning.
Zittau sits at the corner where Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia meet — a geographic quirk that gave local emergency money unusual cross-border exposure and occasionally complicated redemption.