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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Paderborn (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in green and black on cream paper within a double-ruled border, with two diagonal ribbon banners carrying NOTGELD DER STADT PADERBORN across the upper field and denomination numerals 10 and Pfg at the upper corners. The central vignette presents a stylised stepped-gable building facade bearing the numeral 10 alongside repeated small denomination figures, flanked by columns of validity text. The issuance date PADERBORN, den 1. März 1920 appears at lower left, with the authority line DER MAGISTRAT accompanied by a manuscript signature at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in green and black on cream paper within a double-ruled border with ornamental corner scrollwork, and diagonal ribbon banners reading NOTGELD DER STADT across the upper field and PADERBORN * 1920 across the lower, with denomination numerals 10 and Pfg at all four corners. The central vignette consists of a circular guilloche-bordered medallion containing a bust portrait of Emperor Charlemagne wearing an imperial crown, surrounded by the legend KAISER CARL DER GROSE within the circle. The designer's credit JOS. DOMINICUS ENTW. is printed in small type at the lower margin. |
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Paderborn's 1920 Pfennig notgeld series was produced during the acute small-change shortage that followed the First World War, when hoarding of metal coins left German municipalities scrambling to fill the gap with emergency paper. The Stadt Paderborn issues were notably prolific — over twelve million impressions of this denomination alone — which suggests genuine mass circulation rather than the speculative collector editions some German towns were already printing by 1920 with deliberate artificial scarcity.
Jos. Dominicus was a local Paderborn commercial artist, not a professional banknote engraver, and that distinction shows in the workmanship. The printing run's sheer volume means surviving examples are common; condition rather than rarity drives any collector premium here.