10 Pfennig

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.