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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bürgermeisterei Wiebelskirchen |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue-violet on a fine geometric underprint pattern. A central oval vignette, framed by a decorative scrollwork surround, presents a detailed letterpress view of a coal mine complex, with a prominent headframe tower, multi-storey pithead building, rail tracks in the foreground, and a broad industrial landscape extending to the horizon. The serial number is printed in large serifed numerals below the vignette, with the printer's imprint in small type at the lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | No 099750 GEBR. PARCUS MÜNCHEN |
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Wiebelskirchen was a small industrial township in the Saar coalfield, and its municipal authority — the Bürgermeisterei — issued this note as Kleingeldersatz during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in 1919–1920. The Reichsbank simply could not produce low-denomination coin fast enough to meet demand after the wartime metal hoarding and postwar disruption. Thousands of German municipalities issued their own Notgeld as a result, most of them ephemeral and poorly printed.
Gebrüder Parcus was a Munich lithographic firm that handled a significant volume of Notgeld commissions during this period, bringing more consistent production quality than many local print shops could manage.