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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Elberfeld, City of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 64 × 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown letterpress note enclosed within an ornate guilloche border with the denomination numeral '10' at upper left and lower right corners. 'Stadt Elberfeld' in Gothic blackletter script heads the design, with the large central legend 'Zehn Pfennig' in bold blackletter type; the Elberfeld city arms vignette appears at upper right. The lower portion carries the redemption clause and a facsimile signature of the Oberbürgermeister, with the printer's imprint 'Gedruckt bei Sam. Lucas in Elberfeld' along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Dark brown letterpress on plain cream paper stock, framed by a guilloche border with ornamental corner rosettes. 'Stadt Elberfeld' in Gothic blackletter heads the upper panel, with the denomination numeral '10' repeated in boxed fields at left and right; 'Zehn Pfennig' appears in a corresponding bottom panel. The central field contains a four-line verse in Elberfeld dialect rendered in decorative script, attributed below to the poet Storck. |
| Reverse lettering | Stadt Elberfeld Us Elberfeild, dat es en Stadt, die bruckt seck nit te schamen. Storck (Translation: City of Elberfeld Our Elberfeld is a city she needn't be ashamed. Storck) |
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