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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Selb, Bayern |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central oval vignette contains a large numeral '10' on each side flanking a vignette of a local tower or town hall with a clock face, set within a decorative cartouche with scrollwork ornaments. The inscription 'STADTRAT SELB BAYERN' appears across the top, with the denomination legend 'Pfennige' arched within the central oval and the year '1920' below. Two manuscript signatures appear at the lower left and lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADTRAT SELB BAYERN Pfennige 10 1920 |
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Selb is a porcelain town in Upper Franconia, home to Rosenthal and later Hutschenreuther, and in 1920 its municipal council was doing what hundreds of German small-town administrations were doing simultaneously: printing emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage from circulation. The hoarding of copper and nickel during the war years had never fully reversed by 1920, and municipal bodies had legal authority under emergency provisions to fill the gap.
These Bavarian municipal issues were produced in short runs and rarely traveled far from the issuing locality, which is precisely why survival rates are low despite the notes being technically post-war.