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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Darmstadt (City of Darmstadt) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark green on light green paper, the obverse carries the issuer title 'Stadt Darmstadt' in Gothic script across the top. To the left, a circular vignette bears the Darmstadt civic arms — a lion passant above a fleur-de-lis — while a matching circle to the right contains the numeral '10' rendered in ornate interlaced style. The denomination 'Gutschein über 10 Pfennig.' is set in bold blackletter at centre, with the date 'Darmstadt, 15. Dezbr. 1920' and a facsimile signature of the Oberbürgermeister below, all enclosed within a zigzag decorative border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in dark green on the same light green paper stock, is dominated by a central letterpress vignette of the Darmstadt Altes Rathaus (Old Town Hall) with its baroque gabled façade, an obelisk monument and a busy market scene with figures in the foreground. Ornamental side panels of interlaced geometric and foliate motifs frame the central vignette on both vertical edges. The printer's imprint appears in small capitals along the lower margin. |
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Darmstadt's municipal government, like hundreds of German towns, was forced into emergency money production as postwar coin shortages gutted everyday commerce. The Reichsbank simply could not keep small denomination coinage in circulation fast enough — metal had been consumed by the war, and what remained was being hoarded. H. Hohmann was a local Darmstadt printing firm, which made this a genuinely municipal production in both authority and manufacture, not a note farmed out to a specialist securities printer.
Stadt Darmstadt Notgeld of this period is common as a type but frequently found with folds and handling wear — these circulated hard through shops and markets before the stabilization crisis of 1923 made them obsolete.