Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreise Bonn-Stadt, Bonn-Land und des Siegkreises |
|---|---|
| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Rectangular |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Green on pale ground with a wavy-line guilloche border framing the entire field. The central vignette, printed in intaglio style, presents a vigorous allegorical composition of three male figures in classical nudity straining to raise or support a massive boulder, flanked by two stone pillar motifs — an allegory of reconstruction. The denomination numeral '10' appears in bold display type at upper left and upper right, and the printer's imprint is set in small type along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Wiederaufbau 10 M. DUMONT SCHAUBERG, KÖLN. |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
This is Notgeld — emergency municipal scrip issued by the combined administrative districts of Bonn-Stadt, Bonn-Land, and Siegkreis during the postwar economic chaos that left Germany without adequate small change. The Reichsbank simply could not keep enough low-denomination coin in circulation, and hundreds of German localities filled the gap with their own printed paper. M. Dumont Schauberg, a Cologne publishing house with a long print history, handled production for a number of Rhineland issuers during this period.
The Rhineland itself was under Allied occupation in 1920, adding an unusual political dimension to scrip that was, technically, circulating under French and British military authority.