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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Eckartsberga, City of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Zehn Pfennig Eckartsberga Thür., 1. Aug. 1920. Der Magistrat. Die Stadtverordneten. |
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| Reverse lettering | Eckartsburg bei Eckartsberga, Thür. |
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Eckartsberga is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency paper currency — Notgeld — to address the acute small-denomination coin shortage that followed WWI. The Reichsbank could not meet demand for low-value coinage, and local authorities filled the gap themselves. These issues were self-funded, self-designed, and legally tolerated rather than officially sanctioned.
Collectors should note that many Eckartsberga Notgeld pieces were printed in excess of local need and sold directly to the growing collector market — a practice that became widespread by 1921.