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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtverwaltung Kindelbrück |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green and black, the note carries the town name 'Kindelbrück' on a banner at top, flanked by decorative foliage and the municipal heraldic lion in shield cartouches on either side. A central vignette in letterpress style shows three children playing with sticks, rendered in a folk-art manner. The lower portion bears the denomination '10 Zehn Pfennig' in Gothic script on a black ground, with the issuing authority inscription 'Stadt-Kindelbrück den 23. Nov. 1920' and 'Die Stadt-Verwaltung' with a manuscript signature to the right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Kindelbrück Immer vorwärts Nie zurück GUTSCHEIN über Zehn Pfennig 10 Stadt-Kindelbrück den 23. Nov. 1920 Die Stadt-Verwaltung: |
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Kindelbrück is a small town in Thuringia, and its 1920 notgeld issue belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency money printed across Germany as coin shortages made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. The Reichsbank's inability to keep fractional coinage in circulation — partly due to hoarding, partly due to raw material constraints — forced thousands of local administrations to issue their own scrip, most of it printed on whatever paper stock was locally available.
The presence of a watermark on a 10 Pfennig municipal note is worth flagging. Most small-town notgeld at this level was printed on plain unprotected stock; a watermarked substrate suggests either a deliberate anti-counterfeiting measure or, more likely, that the printer happened to source security paper for the run.