10 Pfennig

Rodach — officially Rodach bei Coburg at the time — occupied an awkward geographic position in 1920, sitting on the Bavarian-Thuringian border just as the Coburg region was preparing to vote on whether to join Thuringia or Bavaria. The plebiscite came in February 1920, with the area ultimately annexed to Bavaria in July of that year. This Kleingeldersatz note was issued by the town's Magistrat during precisely that transitional period, which gives even routine municipal emergency money from here a faint political undertow.

Gebrüder Parcus of Munich were prolific producers of Bavarian Notgeld and brought consistent letterpress quality to small-run municipal issues. The 55 × 43 mm format is notably diminutive even by Notgeld standards.