10 Pfennig

Dinslaken's 1920 Kleingeldscheine were products of the acute small-change shortage that gripped German municipalities following the First World War. Metal coinage had largely vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply not minted in sufficient quantity — forcing hundreds of cities and towns to commission their own fractional emergency notes. Gebr. Parcus in Munich was among the busiest suppliers of these municipal issues, printing for dozens of Westphalian and Rhenish communities simultaneously.

Parcus issues from this period are generally well-executed for what was essentially utilitarian emergency printing, with tighter registration than many competing houses.