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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Elberfeld (City of Elberfeld) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed notgeld in dark blue on a green guilloche underprint, with denomination numerals '10' set in framed panels at upper left and lower right flanking a bold central blackletter legend 'Zehn Pfennig'. The header panel bears 'Stadt-Elberfeld' above a municipal lion crest vignette at upper right and a secondary heraldic device at lower left. A Gothic-script validity clause occupies the lower centre, dated 'Elberfeld, den 10. März 1920', with the Oberbürgermeister's signature and the printer's imprint along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Stadt-Elberfeld 10 Us-Elberfeild, dat-es-en-Stadt, die-bruck-seck-nit- te-schamien. Storck Zehn-Pfennig |
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Elberfeld was absorbed into the newly created city of Wuppertal in 1929, making all municipal issues from this period documents of a city that no longer exists administratively. This 10 Pfennig note belongs to the wave of Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitutes — flooding German towns in 1920 as coin metal remained scarce and hyperinflation had not yet peaked but was already disrupting everyday commerce.
Samuel Lucas was a well-established Elberfeld printing house, and its proximity to the issuing authority meant turnaround was fast. Dr. Loss signed as Oberbürgermeister of a textile-industry city that had its own economic pressures quite apart from the national crisis.