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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Salzungen (Bad Salzungen), Magistrat |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Reineck & Klein, Weimar, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER STADT 10 PF. BAD SALZUNGEN Gültig bis 1 Monat · nach Aufruf · Salzungen, den 10. Juni 1921 Der Magistrat: Sitte |
| Reverse description | Multicolour letterpress reverse in blue, yellow, and brown, centred on an octagonal vignette of the Kinderheilstätte Charlottenhall, a half-timbered convalescent home set among trees, rendered in fine line illustration. Tall decorative vases bearing floral arrangements occupy the left and right margins against a yellow dot-pattern underprint, with blue rectangular cartouches at upper left and upper right each bearing '10 PF.' in white. The printer's imprint 'REINECK & KLEIN, WEIMAR' is printed in small type at the lower centre. |
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Bad Salzungen is a small spa town in Thuringia with saltworks dating back centuries — the "Salz" in its name is no accident. This 1921 Notgeld piece was issued by the town magistrate during the severe coin shortage that gripped Germany after the First World War, when even the smallest denominations vanished from circulation as hoarding and metal scarcity made Reichsmünzen functionally unavailable for everyday transactions.
Reineck & Klein of Weimar printed enormous quantities of municipal Notgeld across Thuringia during this period. The single signature, "Sitte," likely belongs to a municipal official rather than a bank director — a detail that underscores how far monetary responsibility had devolved from central institutions to local bureaucrats by 1921.