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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kindelbrück, City of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 87 × 63 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in pink and olive-brown on cream paper, the obverse centres on a vignette of four children in period dress engaged in a marching or playing scene, flanked on each side by a heraldic lion cartouche. The town name "Kindelbrück" arches across the top in Gothic lettering beneath a decorative frieze of oak leaves and acorns, with the motto banners "Immer vorwärts" and "Nie Zurück" to the left and right respectively. The date "23. Nov. 1920" and issuing authority appear in lower lateral panels, above a bold denomination panel reading "Zehn Pfennig" with the numeral 10 repeated at each corner. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 |
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Kindelbrück is a small town in Thuringia, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — to compensate for the severe small-change shortage that followed the First World War. Coins had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted, and the Reichsbank was in no position to supply adequate fractional currency to every rural township demanding it.
These hyper-local issues were produced in enormous variety, often by regional printers with no particular expertise in security printing. Authentication was largely symbolic.