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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Delitzsch |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN der Stadt Delitzsch Zehn Pfennig Der Magistrat Ausgegeben im Jahre 1920. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in orange on cream paper within the same wavy decorative border as the obverse. A detailed vignette occupies the upper two-thirds of the note, showing a view of the Delitzsch castle tower with its distinctive onion-domed spire rising above surrounding historic buildings and foliage. The lower portion contains a six-line poem in gothic script referencing the castle's history, dated 'a. 1691', with a faint official circular seal visible at lower right. |
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Delitzsch is a small town north of Leipzig, and its municipal government — the Magistrat — was among hundreds of German local authorities that issued Kleingeldscheine during the post-WWI emergency currency period. This 10 Pfennig note carries a 1920 date, placing it squarely in the early Weimar inflation years when coin metal was hoarded and small change had effectively vanished from circulation.
The print date of 30 April 1945 is the detail that demands attention: that was the day Adolf Hitler died in Berlin, with Soviet forces already inside the city. Kleingeldscheine from 1920 were not still being printed in 1945 — this date almost certainly reflects a later philatelic or catalog annotation, not a genuine press run.