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10 Pfennig

Issuer Schierke, Municipality of
Year 1921
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Shape Rectangular
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Reverse description The reverse is dominated by a large scenic vignette of the Brocken summit in the Harz mountains, framed by tall pine trees on either side within an arched decorative border with a dotted inner line. The numeral "10" appears in bold blackletter type in each upper corner. A ribbon banner at the base of the vignette carries the inscription "Schierke i. Harz" with the caption "Brocken" directly below.
Reverse lettering 10
10
Schierke i. Harz
Brocken
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Schierke is a small resort village on the northern slope of the Brocken, the highest peak in the Harz mountains — better known in 1921 for hiking tourism than for monetary policy. This note is Notgeld, issued during the postwar small-change drought when municipal authorities across Germany stepped in to fill a coin gap the Reichsbank could not. Louis Koch of Halberstadt produced a substantial volume of Harz-region Notgeld during this period, supplying multiple small issuers from a single operation.

The DeNG reference suffix distinguishes printing variants — paper stock or color differences — within what is otherwise the same emission.

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