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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Tanna (Reuss) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Salmon-pink reverse with matching rope-twist border and corner denomination cartouches '10'. The central vignette presents a line-engraved townscape of Tanna's market square, with the Rathaus (town hall) at centre, a church steeple rising to the left, and figures in the foreground square. Below the vignette the place name 'Tanna. (Reuss)' is printed in bold letterpress; a vertical inscription on the left border identifies the redemption office, while the right border carries the anti-counterfeiting warning. |
| Reverse lettering | Tanna. (Reuss) Einlösungsstelle: Stadtkasse Tanna. Nachdruck u. Fälschung wird strafrechtlich verfolgt. |
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Tanna is a small town in the Vogtland, historically within the principality of Reuss-Greiz, one of the smallest sovereign states in the German confederation before 1918. This note belongs to the enormous wave of municipal Notgeld issued across Germany in 1920 — not the emergency small-change notes of 1914–1918, but the second wave, driven largely by the coin shortage that persisted after the war and, increasingly, by collector demand that municipalities were happy to exploit for revenue.
At 51 × 34 mm, Tanna's issue is among the smallest format Notgeld produced — the physical constraints alone made elaborate printing difficult, and most examples from this town are typographically plain.