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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Weilburg a.d. Lahn (City of Weilburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in teal-green on cream paper, the obverse carries the issuer's name "Stadt Weilburg a.d. Lahm" in bold Gothic lettering across the top, below a serial number box at upper centre. Two circular medallions at left and right bear the numeral "10" within ornate guilloche frames; the left vignette shows a fountain or spring motif, the right a rising sun. The central panel carries the denomination legend "Gutschein über Zehn Pfennig" in large Fraktur script, while the lower register contains a redemption text flanking the municipal coat of arms, dated "Weilburg a.d.L. Sept. 1920" with a facsimile signature for Der Magistrat. The printer's imprint "Scharfes Druckereien Wetzlar" appears at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Wissen und Fleiss · Schaffen im Schweiss · Sonne und Regen · Von oben der Segen Landwirtschaftsschule Wetterdienststelle |
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Weilburg's 1920 notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of municipal emergency money that flooded Germany after the Reichsbank's coin shortages became acute. The city sat on the Lahn river in Hessen-Nassau, a Prussian province with dozens of small towns each printing their own fractional currency during this period — Wetzlar, where Scharfes Druckereien operated, was itself a neighboring print center that handled contracts for several surrounding municipalities simultaneously.
Low-denomination notgeld at this level circulated hard and fast, often destroyed within months of redemption drives. Survivors in clean condition are more the exception than the rule.