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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Jüterbog (City of Jüterbog) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT JÜTERBOG GUTSCHEIN ZEHN PFENNIG 10 JÜTERBOG, 1. APRIL 1920 DER MAGISTRAT GÜLTIG BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1921. |
| Reverse description | Printed in blue on plain paper, the reverse repeats the full obverse design layout with an arched STADT JÜTERBOG banner and GUTSCHEIN ribbon at the top, the large underprint numeral '10' in the centre field, and the bold ZEHN PFENNIG denomination legend. The issuing details JÜTERBOG, 1. APRIL 1920, DER MAGISTRAT and two facsimile signatures appear in the lower half, with the validity clause GÜLTIG BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1921 along the bottom, all enclosed within a scalloped guilloche frame, though executed in a single blue colour without the dark brown overprint of the obverse. |
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Jüterbog's 1920 Kleingeldscheine were issued to address the acute small-change shortage that paralyzed German retail commerce in the immediate postwar years — a crisis severe enough that hundreds of municipalities printed their own fractional notes rather than wait for Berlin to supply adequate coinage. The city sits in Brandenburg, historically notable as a garrison town and the site of Napoleon's 1813 defeat at the hands of Prussian and Swedish forces, though none of that military past has any bearing on why this note exists.
At 51 × 40.5 mm, it is among the smaller examples of the Notgeld format. Ten-Pfennig denominations were among the most heavily circulated and consequently the most worn.