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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Allendorf an der Werra (Stadtkasse) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted buff-coloured paper reverse bearing a single circular violet validation stamp applied by hand at centre. The stamp impression reads 'STADT KASSE ALLENDORF' around its circumference and incorporates a small town arms vignette at its centre, serving as the official authentication mark required for the note's validity. |
| Reverse lettering | STADT · KASSE · ALLENDORF |
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Allendorf an der Werra was a small salt-mining town on the Werra river, and its municipal treasury issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in 1921 as hyperinflation began dismantling the coin supply. Thousands of German municipalities turned to locally printed Notgeld at this moment, but notes printed in-house by the issuing town's own commercial printer — Selenheim & Co. operating locally — are notably more parochial in their production quality than the elaborate collector-targeted issues coming out of larger cities that same year.
The official stamp serves as the primary authentication device, a cheap but legally sufficient measure for denominations this small. At ten Pfennig, the note was already nearly worthless within eighteen months of issue.